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Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...
Juneteenth – which was recognised as a federal holiday in 2021 – now more widely represents the emancipation of enslaved ...
June 19 marks the annual observance of when enslaved Americans in Texas were told they were free in 1865, two years after the ...
Tomorrow is Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating Black freedom in America. Here's how to celebrate, what will be open and closed ...
Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American ...
It may be that trying to undo a national holiday, particularly one as publicly embraced as Juneteenth, would be a harder sell ...
Juneteenth just became a federal holiday in 2021—and while it took a little while, it’s also now an official holiday in all ...
Some on the “Juneteenth Jubilee and Freedom Walk,” which retraced the steps of enslaved people seeking freedom, say they ...
Juneteenth celebrations have been around since the 1800s, but it didn't become a federal holiday until just three years ago.
Highland Park has postponed the repainting of the Black Lives Matter mural on South Fifth Avenue three times in a little over a week due to rainy weather ...
Drums, gospel, and radical poetry nourished the ears; food from Voilá Afrique satisfied the belly; and Black pride uplifted ...