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'We are still trying to get free': Black Americans continue fight for equality on Juneteenth
Bucks County Courier Times
FILE - This Feb. 18, 2005, file photo shows the original Emancipation Proclamation on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington. President Abraham Lincoln first issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves free in Confederate territory on Sept. 22, 1862. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order Wednesday, June 17, 2020, recognizing Juneteenth as a paid holiday for state employees to commemorate the emancipation of slaves in the U.S.
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Katrina Cotton, center, of Houston, poses for a photo with her daughter, Kennedy Cotton, age seven, as her aunt, Janet Wilson, left, takes the photo, at the Black Wall Street memorial in Tulsa, Okla., Monday, June 15, 2020.
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Keith Boykin, a freelance journalist, was arrested while covering a protest in New York.
Keith Boykin
Voters wait in line at a southwest Atlanta polling place for the June 9 primary.
Nicquel Terry Ellis
Richard Willock (right) and his teenage son.
Photo Courtesy Of Attorney Jason Kafoury