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On Juneteenth, a journalist honors ancestor at ceremony for Black soldiers who served in Civil War

Jun. 19, 2024 12:32 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the middle of the night in the summer of 2021 when I finally found the missing piece of my family history. My great-great-great-great grandfather Hewlett Sands, born into slavery in Oyster Bay, New York in 1820, was one of the more than 200,000 names listed...