Topic - Abraham Lincoln

"That's a remembrance," he said. "It's different from revering somebody who had that [Confederate] view."

Joe Biden draws 'distinction' between vandalizing Confederate monuments and other memorials →

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when the Union army brought word of the Emancipation Proclamation to enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln declared all slaves free in Confederate territory.

NYC mayor forms race commission, sets Juneteenth holiday →