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This Juneteenth HBCU celebration carries extra weight in 2026. The holiday just marked its fifth year as a federal observance, and at the center of that history stands a 99-year-old HBCU alumna who refused to let the world forget. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day enslaved Black people in Texas finally learned of […]
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