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FILE PHOTO: People attend an event to mark Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, over two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the U.S., in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., June 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kevin Wurm/File Photo

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