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Juneteenth

People hold a sign in their car during a car parade to mark Juneteenth on Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Inglewood, California. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
June 17, 2022, 6:15 pm
On Juneteenth, US Jewish communities are reckoning with their own attitudes on race
Around the country, institutions host Shabbat and other programming aimed at educating about racism generally and also grappling with its existence in their own spaces
By Jackie Hajdenberg
People film the only statue of a Confederate general, Albert Pike, in the nation's capital after it was toppled by protesters and set on fire in Washington, June 20, 2020 (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
June 20, 2020, 12:19 pm
DC protesters pull down, burn statue of Confederate general on Juneteenth
To cheers, demonstrators read out Trump’s angry tweet about toppling of only Confederate memorial in US capital; activists say Albert Pike was chief founder of post-Civil War KKK
By ASHRAF KHALIL and ASHLEY THOMAS
A demonstrator holds a fist in the air next to a American flag with the names of Black people who have been killed by police as people demonstrate by the Lincoln Memorial on Juneteenth in Washington, June 19, 2020. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
June 20, 2020, 3:22 am
Amid protests for racial justice, Juneteenth gets new renown
Every major American city holds events marking holiday, which commemorates emancipation of slaves in US, as protesters’ demands begin to yield concrete results
By Mike Householder, JONATHAN MATTISE and Michelle R. Smith
People attend a public Shabbat service to protest against police brutality and in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Providence, R.I. (AP/Michael Dwyer)
June 19, 2020, 2:04 am
As US seethes over racial injustice, Jews find meaning in Juneteenth observances
Several events planned for Jewish congregants and activists to mark holiday celebrating emancipation of black slaves, many incorporating a new Kaddish for Black Lives prayer
By Josefin Dolsten and PHILISSA CRAMER
US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 21, 2020 (JIM WATSON / AFP)
June 13, 2020, 7:20 pm
Trump reschedules campaign rally after uproar over ‘Juneteenth’ timing
June 19 event in Tulsa, Oklahoma had been due to mark president’s return to the campaign trail, but he says he will reschedule ‘out of respect’ for holiday marking end of slavery
By AFP
US President Donald Trump walks onstage at a campaign rally, in North Charleston, South Carolina, February 28, 2020. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
June 12, 2020, 8:41 am
Trump asks supporters not to sue if they catch coronavirus at his rally
Online waiver requires participants acknowledge ‘an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present’
By AFP
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