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J Gourdin, a senior student success specialist at The University of New Mexico African American Student Services, will present poems they created in a spoken word presentation for the City of Albuquerque Juneteenth celebration this weekend. The holiday...

On June 19, 1865, slavery in the United States ended when Union soldiers landed in Texas and delivered the news that the Civil War was over and that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed nearly four million from chattel slavery. This year, June 19,...