A majority of Americans will not be celebrating Juneteenth this year, according to a poll conducted exclusively for Newsweek. President Joe Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth, which falls on June 19, a federal holiday in 2021. The holiday marks the date—June 19, 1865—when the last enslaved people in the United States learned of their […]
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New Pew research shows 1 in 10 Black people in the U.S. are migrants.
The breadth of what it means to be a Black American is widening, according to new analysis of the latest migration statistics. The Pew Research Center combed through the U.S. Census data and found the percentage of the Black population who had migrated to the United States had more than tripled over the last 40 […]