Emma Clark

1 week ago | msn.com | Emma Clark

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1 week ago | inkl.com | Emma Clark

Juneteenth is fast-approaching again for its fifth year as a federal holiday with a plethora of festivities popping up around the country to celebrate. Juneteenth, a combination of June and nineteenth, commemorates the day Black Americans were officially made a free people. On 19 June 1865, union soldiers brought the news to Galveston, Texas that they were free. The news came two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Emma Clark

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

2 weeks ago | inkl.com | Emma Clark

As a new strain of COVID-19 spreads around the globe including throughout the UK, British travellers are wondering whether their summer trips could be affected by the virus' latest outbreak. The new variant, known as NB.1.8.1 has been detected in the UK by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) with 13 cases being recorded in England last week. However, the number of cases may be significantly higher given the lack of people testing compared to five years ago.

2 weeks ago | ibtimes.co.uk | Emma Clark

Unconventional 'boil in a bag' funerals in which human bodies are liquified and disposed of in wastewater systems could be coming to the UK. A consultation of funerary methods by the Law Commission has proposed legalising the cremation technique formally known as alkaline hydrolysis in which heat, water and alkaline chemicals are used to break down a body into liquid and bone fragments.