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Month: June 2022

Juneteenth by the Numbers 2022

By Toby Lyles, CNN Editorial Research Juneteenth is the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. African Americans and others mark the anniversary much like the Fourth of July, with parties, picnics and gatherings with family and friends. Juneteenth was signed into law as a national holiday by President Joe Biden on June

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Dos combatientes estadounidenses supuestamente fueron detenidos por separatistas respaldados por Rusia en Donetsk, según medio rusos

Juan Pablo Elverdin (CNN) — Dos voluntarios estadounidenses que luchan por Ucrania fueron detenidos por los separatistas respaldados por Rusia en Donetsk tras ser capturados la semana pasada, según los medios estatales rusos. Los ciudadanos estadounidenses Alexander John-Robert Drueke, de 39 años y originario de Tuscaloosa (Alabama), y Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, de 27 años

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What’s open, what’s closed on Juneteenth

CNN By Camila Moreno Lizarazo, CNN This year marks the second year Juneteenth will be observed as a federal holiday. June 19 commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were told by Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger that they had been liberated. Granger’s announcement came almost three years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

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