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Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States and commemorates June 19,1865, when Union troops in Galveston Bay, Texas informed enslaved people of their right to freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer started a week-long European trade trip in Paris to pitch Michigan’s aerospace and defense industries as an unsettled continent faces a pullback in the U.S. commitment to the NATO alliances and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. -
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The book includes the story of a Battle Creek woman who escaped slavery in Kentucky, but had to leave her sister to do so. It took decades for them to reunite.
