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Juneteenth At Kentucky Center For African American Heritage Includes Jazz And A Play About Fannie Lou Hamer

This weekend, the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage is celebrating Juneteenth with two days of events. Juneteenth is the celebration of the emancipation of enslaved people after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation was issued on Jan. 1, 1863, but it was not followed in Texas until Union Major General Gordon Granger […]

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