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06/17/2022
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    Meet a farmer spreading a Juneteenth history lesson.

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Today in Top Story: Meet a farmer spreading a Juneteenth history lesson.

The holiday is celebrated annually on June 19. Juneteenth commemorates when news of freedom reached enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, in 1865. That was about two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation freed the enslaved in Southern states.

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