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How you can participate in the commemoration of Juneteenth in Detroit

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This coming Sunday, the nation stops to commemorate Juneteenth.

How City of Detroit played a significant role in fight to protect those who were still enslaved

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Juneteenth commemorates the announcement of emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865.This happened more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863.