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Juneteenth a day after president biden signed the bill, making juneteenth an official holiday recognizing it as a federal holiday. >> nations don't ignore their most painful moments. they don't ignore the moments of the past, they embrace them. the emancipation of enslaved black americans did not marked the end of equality it only marked the beginning. >> i'm so glad to see you in person. juneteeth, for many people, they didn't know about it. >> it was the date that the last slaves were freed in texas. federal soldiers came in and told the slave holders they have to listen to the emancipation

This? >> reporter: many here say now is the time to honor a history too often overlooked. >> enslaved people -- >> reporter: this man is a historian with galveston's juneteenth project. where are we? >> we are at pier 21 where enslaved african-americans arrived. >> reporter: mostly black union soldiers rode into texas to tell slaveholders they had to respect the emancipation proclamation signed two years earlier. >> in the union soldiers are not arrived, i don't think they would have enforced it until this day. >> reporter: why residents here say this history still matters. what do you hope th...

Soldiers rode into texas to tell slaveholders they had to respect the emancipation proclamation signed two years earlier. >> if the union soldiers and the united states colored troops had not arrived here in galveston i don't think they would have enforced it to this day. >> reporter: which is why residents here say this history still matters. what do you hope that people take away when they walk by and see this work of art? >> i want people to be inspired and hopefully learn something they didn't know before they saw the work of art. >> reporter: a work of art hong the past. morgan radford, n...

Sex Slavery Driving Jihadism in Nigeria: Group American activists decrying the Christian genocide in Nigeria are asserting that jihadist violence is motivated partly by an effort to enslave women and girls. “Most of the individuals captured by Boko Haram jihadists are young women and girls taken by force and trafficked as slave concubines,” the Committee to Free Nigerian Slaves (CFNS) said a statement. CFNS members demonstrated against the practice around a billboard in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, on June 5. “They endure horrendous abuse and mistreatment. An example of one of these victim...

Righteousness he will judge the needy and just as he will give decisions for the poor. and when jesus started his ministry, luke chapter 4, he said the gospel is about good news to the poor, the broken, the sick, the imprisoned or unaccepted. so you can argue that the things they talk about are the main issues but they're not the main issues in scripture. they're not the main issues in the mouth of jesus. it's more of a political decision funded by a lot of money to try to use religion to consecrate a lot of injustice and not to critique the real injustices and the social injustices of our soc...