and everything it took to make it an official federal holiday. the person you hear talking, you may see her dancing later. i got the video. nischelle turner is here, cnn contributor and host of entertainment tonight. also sara joins us from the hollywood bowl as well. sara, i m going to get to nischelle. she was dancing the whole time on the show. i can t even watch. were you dancing in the crowd? how could you not move your body even if you didn t have rhythm? i don t think anyone in the crowd didn t have rhythm, but your body just moves. you couldn t not do it. it was powerful. it was powerful. the poem from jill scott hit me like a lightning bolt. it was incredible. there was a beautiful saying, you are somebody s ancestor, act accordingly from another poet. some of the things i m going to leave with, and i think the audience is going to leave with, we re going to stay with them, but the music, first of all, let me tell you who brought down the house, because as we men
as union soldiers spread paving the way for them to mayor, to vote, to vote and to worship and decide their own destiny. the civil war officially ended in april 1865, but in a small community of gavelston island, texas, enslaved slaves were owe believious to their reality, two and a half years after the signing of the emancipation proclamation when a u.s. general informed the last enslaved black people in america that freedom had finally comp the people erupted in joy. that joy became the catalyst for juneteenth. in 2021 juneteenth became an official federal holiday. now recognized across the united states as a day of national celebration. juneteenth is a reminder. it is a reminder of what black people in america have been through and what black people have overcome. it is a commemoration of our resilience. our ingenuity, and most importantly our capacity for joy. our joy is worthy of celebration, and on this day we remember that our freedom must be honored, nurtured and pr
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Kevin in 2008, trooper two crashed on approach to joint base andrews killing four on board. Since then they have overhauled the entire aviation program, retraining the staff and purchasing a new fleet of helicopters. The helicopters the Maryland State Police currently own are the ones that met all the safety recommendations that were made after the crash of trooper two. They met all of those requirements. It was decided by a Blue Ribbon Commission these are the best helicopters for the job in the state of maryland. Kevin before grounding the choppers on sunday, m. S. P. Called on Delaware State Police and u. S. Park police for help. Those agencies have since run five medevac calls here in maryland. M. S. P. Stressing no patients have been negatively impacted. Were live outside joint base andrews. Im kevin lewis. Abc7 news. Alison . Alison thank you very much. Right now President Trump is at Dover Air Force base in delaware. The presidt with the family of chief special Warfare Operator
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