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Rev. Ronald Myers encouraged state and national leaders to promote reconciliation in observation of Juneteenth.

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Advocates Call for National Juneteenth Holiday

Residents gathered in the Tougaloo community this morning to push Congress to establish Juneteenth as a national holiday commemorating the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865.

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