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<strong>New America Media/Richmond Pulse</strong></p>
<p>I recently asked a group of school kids in Richmond, California to tell me what they knew about Juneteenth and the Fourth of July. They all knew the basics of the Fourth of July – that it marks the nation’s independence day. Not one of them, however, could tell me a thing about Juneteenth (June 19), the holiday commemorating the announcement of the abolition of slavery in the U.S.</p>

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