Morning Roundup

“I think many folks haven’t known about it — who are even my color as an African American male. Even if you heard about it and knew about it, you didn’t celebrate it. It was like just a part of history. It wasn’t a celebration of history.”

Dr. David Anderson – Columbia, MD

Today is Juneteenth in Maryland and across the country. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — after the end of the Civil war, and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

‘We want a voice:’ Federalsburg’s Black residents become latest Eastern Shore voters to get a long-awaited shot at representation. (Baltimore Sun)

To celebrate Juneteenth weekend, the National Archives museum is displaying the original Emancipation Proclamation and General Order No. 3 documents for three days only. (Washington Post)

Juneteenth encourages a sense of pride, community and history for Black Americans. (Baltimore Banner)

Baltimore puts its own spin on Juneteenth celebrations. (Baltimore Sun)

The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office is looking for suspects in what they say was a hate crime incident last week. Three unknown suspects spray-painted “racially motivated language and symbols” on vehicles, sidewalks, street signs and roadways in Chesapeake Beach. (WTOP)

Will Governor Moore’s new crime plan work in Baltimore? (WBFF)

Parents continue to raise complaints over books they claim are sexually explicit stocked at the Wicomico County school libraries. (WMDT)

The Maryland Department of the Environment issued a warning that Southern Maryland can expect “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups (USG) ozone concentrations possible Sunday and Monday, compounded by persistent, though diffuse, wildfire smoke.” (Southern Maryland Chronicle)

Two suburban Baltimore facilities that manufacture spices are at the center of the debate about an air pollutant that has attracted increased attention from the federal Environmental Protection Agency in recent years: ethylene oxide. (Baltimore Sun)

Actor/musician Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael were in Annapolis over the weekend to play a concert but also joined forces with the Arundel Rivers Federation and local scouts on Saturday to plant hundreds of native plants that will help filter sediment and pollution out of stormwater at the Broad Creek Park stream. (WTOP)

Governor Wes Moore promoted Brig. Gen. Janeen Birckhead to the rank of major general, making her the only Black woman adjutant general in the United States. (Baltimore Banner)

Baltimore Rep. Kweisi Mfume says he has introduced legislation that would award a Congressional Gold Medal to Henrietta Lacks, the late Turner Station resident whose cell line has been used in multiple medical breakthroughs. (Baltimore Sun)

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The Orioles left Wrigley Field with a victory Sunday over the Chicago Cubs, 6-3, to avoid a series sweep. The team is off today and travels to Tampa for a series against the AL East leading Tampa Bay Rays beginning tomorrow night. (Camden Chat)

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Today, Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday, but what did emancipation look like for enslaved individuals in Maryland? This virtual program discusses Maryland’s Emancipation Day (November 1, 1864) and the unique history of the end of enslavement in the Free State…