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Newsday: 19/06/2020 06:06 GMT: African-Americans across the US are celebrating Juneteenth

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19/06/2020 06:06 GMT

19/06/2020 06:06 GMT: African-Americans across the US are celebrating Juneteenth

African-Americans across the US are celebrating Juneteenth

BBC World Service - Newsday, African-Americans across the US are celebrating Juneteenth

For many, the day has become even more poignant in light of George Floyd's death

For many, the day has become even more poignant in light of George Floyd's death.

It's Juneteenth in America, the day that marks the abolition of slavery.  We look at the anniversary in the context of the Black Lives Matters movement; Facebook says it has removed adverts for US President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that featured a symbol used in Nazi Germany; and DNA has been used to confirm the existence of an elite social class in the Stone Age inhabitants of Ireland.

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