Juneteenth celebrations across U.S. emphasize ending racial disparities

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People across the U.S. gathered to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to order freedom for the enslaved people of the state — two months after the Confederacy had surrendered in the U.S. Civil War.



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