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‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee says efforts are being made to erase Black history

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to get Juneteenth — commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — named a national holiday.

Four years later, Lee’s activism helped push Congress to establish a new national holiday for the first time in nearly 40 years.

President Joe Biden is applauded as he reaches for a pen to sign the Juneteenth Nationa…

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