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23 trailblazers were honored on Friday for helping create the Milwaukee Juneteenth celebration it is today

JUNETEENTH - also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day - is recognized by just about every state in the US.The day that commemorates the Emancipa

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Here are 10+ ways to celebrate, things to do for Juneteenth this year in Louisville Gege Reed, Louisville Courier Journal USA TODAY staff reads the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth Replay Video UP NEXT Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery.  Juneteenth, is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Linc...

View Comments Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration to commemorate the emancipation from slavery.  Juneteenth, is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," in honor of June 19, 1865, when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, to inform a reluctant community that President Abraham Lincoln two years earlier had freed the slaves and to press locals to comply with his directive.  There is no one reason why there was a 2-plus-year delay in letting Texas know about the abolition of slavery in the U...