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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.
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THURSDAY, September 24, 2020
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Volume 47, Number 3
Photos by Alphonso Abbott Jr.
BY TIMOTHY RAMSEY
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We are starting to get a chill in the air, which is definitely football weather. They are not professionals yet, but the little guys who play youth football! are gearing up for their
season. The Kernersville Warriors, the new kids on the block for Pop Warner football in the area, are looking to make a name for themselves and show what their organization
cando.
City Council makes Juneteenth official
BY TEVIN STINSON
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The Winston-Salem
City Council approved
a resolution recognizing
Juneteenth as an official
holiday.
Juneteenth is the
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oldest known celebration
honoring the end of slavery
in the United States. The
holiday marks the day
(June 19, 1865) Union
Soldiers in Galveston,
Texas, announced the end
of the Civil War and that
slaves had been freed. In
response to the modern
day lynching of George
Floyd, a Black man who
was killed while being
detained by police in
Minneapolis, Minn.,
citizens across the country
have called for Juneteenth
to be recognized as a
national holiday.
Although Juneteenth
hasn’t been acknowledged
as a national holiday,
several municipalities
across the country have
decided to recognize
the day, also known as
Black Independence Day,
as a paid holiday. And
on Monday, Sept. 21,
Winston-Salem became
the latest to do so when the
City Council unanimously
passed the resolution
during a virtual meeting.
Before the
See Juneteenth on A6