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The New Haven Green hosted the city's multi-day festival honoring Juneteenth, recognized by the organizers for the 10th year in a row.
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The conference is Monday at New Haven’s Neighborhood Music School.
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Juneteenth is Monday, June 19. But there are many celebrations outside of the three-day weekend.
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Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in America, when the last enslaved people in the United States, in Galveston, Texas, finally heard that they were free. That was June of 1865. Connecticut only abolished slavery 17 years earlier.
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Cities across Connecticut are marking Juneteenth.
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Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the US, and it’s now a federal holiday. But Juneteenth isn’t the only holiday that recognizes the legal end of slavery in the Americas.August 1st is Emancipation Day in many English-speaking countries across the Caribbean.This hour, we talk about the history of slavery and emancipation in the West Indies.
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Just because Juneteenth is now a federal holiday, that doesn’t mean state and municipal employees automatically get the day off. Rather, union leaders…