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Juneteenth, and Eunice K. Waymon (Nina Simone) Posted: June 18th, 2008, 5:00am EDT by Marian
Time for our annual Black American commemoration of Juneteenth. June 19, 1865 is celebrated by Black Americans as the date when our ancestors in the deep South and West (Texas) finally got word of the Emancipation Proclamation. On paper it...