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Ray Hamill brings us details of all of this week's big local sports stories, including who won this week's big District Little League Tournament of Champions, as well as the latest on the Humboldt Crabs and all of the local America Legion baseball teams.

In place of tonight’s regular newscast, KMUD is sharing a special Juneteenth report.

In June 2020, KMUD's Lauren Schmitt was in Tulsa, Oklahoma — the home of Black Wall Street and the site of one of the most atrocious race massacres in U.S. history: the Tulsa Massacre. At that time, the city was both celebrating the Juneteenth freedom holiday and bracing for what was to come. Then-President Donald Trump had scheduled his first campaign rally since the COVID-19 outbreak — set to take place in Tulsa, during the near-centennial of the massacre, and on the very day the nation honors Black freedom: June 19th, or Juneteenth.

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the emancipation of enslaved people — more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. Today, it stands as a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States.

That Juneteenth in 2020 came just weeks after the police murder of George Floyd, as the Black Lives Matter movement surged nationwide — especially in Tulsa. Many feared the President’s decision to hold a rally on such a significant date, in such a charged location, could spark unrest. Tensions rose as his supporters arrived in the city, many wearing red MAGA hats.

Exactly five years ago, KMUD News was there for the entire Juneteenth weekend.

Tonight, we honor the voices of Greenwood — Black Wall Street — and those who continue the fight for justice and freedom.

Last April, the American Forest Resource Council, an umbrella organization for Timber Industry stakeholders, sued the US Fish and Wildlife Service to lift protection of 3.5 million acres of forest land in California, Oregon and Washington. Were the protection lifted, it could lead to logging of mature and old-growth forests, and place the already threatened Northern Spotted Owl in even deeper peril.  Because of this, a coalition of environmental organizations in the three states—including Humboldt-based EPIC—has intervened in the lawsuit.

Humboldt County's Board of Supervisors is showing willingness to give cannabis cultivators who owe Measure S taxes some leeway but is also proceeding with permit revocations. Daniel Mintz reports. 

Humboldt County's Board of Supervisors took actions to address homelessness and honor the Golden Rule "peace boat" and the upcoming Juneteenth Day. Daniel Mintz reports.