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The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were told Lincoln had freed slaves in rebel states two years before.

Oregon is one step closer to observing the proclamation of the end of slavery in the United States as a state holiday.

Oregon one step closer to Juneteenth state holiday, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Oregon lawmakers on Tuesday passed bills to commemorate the end of slavery and make it a misdemeanor crime for people to display a noose with the intent to intimidate people. The bills are part of the Legislature’s ongoing response to calls for racial justice following the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police one year ago and the prevalence of reported hate crimes, which have been ...

[What follows is part three of a five-part series on the progress Portland has made on police reform over the past year. Read the rest here.—eds] After the June 2020 budget vote, Wheeler released his own “19-point police reform action plan,” detailing ways his office will improve and adjust policing in Portland. A number of those reforms included actions made in the budget (like “remove police officers from schools”), and others were as simple as...