Happy Juneteenth!

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🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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It's Juneteenth! What is this holiday that hardly anyone fully understands? UCLA's Brenda Stevenson explains the history, and argues that the celebration of emancipation is more important now than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello.
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0:35.2	That's more like Harvard.
0:41.6	It's Tuesday, June 19th, which for most Americans means nothing.
0:46.2	It's a Tuesday in the middle of June.
0:48.3	But for a whole lot of Americans, today, June 19th is one of the most important days
0:52.8	on the calendar.
0:54.6	Let's take out the nine and boom.
0:57.4	Oh, happy Juneteenth.
1:00.4	Happy Freedom Day.
1:03.0	Juneteenth is the day African Americans celebrate the end of slavery.
1:07.4	But Brenda Stevenson, Professor of History and African American Studies at UCLA, says
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