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Join host and Chef Lidia Bastianich and her celebrity cast as she celebrates independence and freedom with different cultures across America. Our celebrity cast includes: actress Anna Deavere Smith, opera singer Renee Fleming, singer Martha Wainwright, Chef Jacques Pepin, actor Alex Mapa and former Olympic athlete Nadia Comaneci.
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Juneteenth is a special day that celebrates freedom for African Americans. On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Texas and announced that slavery was over. This news arrived two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which declared all slaves in Confederate states to be free. Juneteenth is a day to remember the struggles of slavery and to celebrate the freedom of all people. It is a time to come together...
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