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Part of a handwritten copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, with the famous phrase “shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.” Credit: Library of Congress, Rare Book And Special Collections Division

How are you celebrating Juneteenth?

Juneteenth celebrates the day on June 19, 1865, when the last of the Confederacy's 250,000+ enslaved Black people learned that they were freed — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. VoxPopuli asked folks how they planned to mark the day. Here's what they told us.

Features

Read about the various flags representing Gay Pride Month.

Heroes

Winter Garden midwife Jennie Joseph is working to end the highest mortality rate in the developed world.

Government

The FCC wants to pay for your Internet service. And kick in for a new computer. Seriously.

Coronavirus

New Covid variants found. What does that mean for the U.S.?

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Opinion

Hate incidents are way up. How I learned to (safely) intervene at iHollaback!'s bystander intervention training.

Florida News

News from Tallahassee
and from around the state.

Florida historic capitol museum.

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Upcoming government and political events

"You can't just choose to learn what we want to know and not what we should know. We should know the good, the bad, everything. That's what great nations do."

— President Biden, marking the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre

This story was originally published by The 19th.

Experts say disaster relief plans need to center women as hurricane season approaches

Natural disasters have a disproportionate effect on women's health and earnings. President Biden's preparation funds should be spent with that in mind, several groups said.

This story was originally published by ProPublica.

A Program Promised to Pay for Brain-Damaged Infants’ Care. Then It Sent Families to Medicaid Instead.

Florida lawmakers stripped parents of the right to sue over births gone terribly wrong, created a program to cover those claims, made hundreds of millions investing the program’s funds and then offloaded much of the actual costs to Medicaid.

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