US marks Juneteenth with calls for slavery reparations
Wednesday is Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the day in 1865 that slaves in Texas learned of the end of slavery in the United States. President Joe Biden made it a federal holiday in 2021. Kofi Asante, executive producer and artistic director for the Philadelphia Juneteenth Family, tells VOA’s James Butty, true emancipation should begin with reparations and self-reliance by all African peoples
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