District officials have planned a day full of song, dance and celebration for residents celebrating the 144th anniversary of the Emancipation Act.
This is the second year the city has made the anniversary an official city holiday commemorating President Abraham Lincoln’s April 16, 1862, signing of the act freeing thousands of slaves in the District of Columbia.
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