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Juneteenth: What Do Our Holidays Mean?

Plus: Monkeypox is the new normal.

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Benjamin Parker
June 20, 2022∙ Paid
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Hi, all! JVL is out today and he kindly allowed me to sit in for him.

Demonstrators play in a cloud of washable color powder during a Juneteenth march and rally in Washington, DC, on June 19, 2020. - The US marks the end of slavery by celebrating Juneteenth, with the annual unofficial holiday taking on renewed significance as millions of Americans confro…

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