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Norfolk Pride and Juneteenth
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Norfolk Honors Black Workers Who Built Garden They Could Not Visit
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On August 25, remembering the ‘20 and odd’ Africans who arrived in Virginia in 1619
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Black Freedom: A Visual History of Juneteenth and Emancipation Days
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Remembrance events this Sunday recall the end of the Slave Trade
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