Juneteenth is a holiday that commemorates the June 19, 1865 announcement of abolishing slavery in Texas. It’s also called Juneteenth Independence Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Liberation Day, and Emancipation Day. The holiday is truly about the “emancipation of Negro slaves throughout the Confederate South.”
The National Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF) of Alabama is more than 20 years old. According to a press release, the “organization worked hard to make sure the state recognized the Juneteenth holiday. Now the NJOF works to make Juneteenth a National paid holiday.”
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The Free Annual National Juneteenth Festival with the National Juneteenth Observance Foundation of Alabama will be on Saturday, June 19, 2021, at historic Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama.
Dr. Ben Carson announces $2.9 million federal grant to study civil rights ‘gateway’
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Dr. Ben Carson, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for the Trump administration, speaks in Linn Park on Dec. 15, 2020, about a federal grant of $2.9 million to study where to put a proposed Global Forum for Freedom and Justice campus in Birmingham. (Photo by Greg Garrison/AL.com)
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Dr. Ben Carson stood in front of Birmingham’s Linn Park Christmas tree on Tuesday morning and announced a $2.9 million federal grant to study the best location for a proposed Global Forum for Freedom and Justice campus in Birmingham that will be a “gateway to the civil rights trail.”