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It may be that trying to undo a national holiday, particularly one as publicly embraced as Juneteenth, would be a harder sell ...
Several communities in the region have Juneteenth events, and at the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, organizers say there is an ...
One hundred sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...
We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...
Andre Crockett, a community leader in Rochester, is hosting his second annual ‘Juneteenth Jubilee Breakfast’ at Empire Event ...
In Juneteenth’s fifth year as a federal holiday, commemorations of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States continue to evolve in the Baltimore area and beyond.
By the time the drumming and dancing starts Thursday, an organization that promotes African American history and culture in ...
JEFFERSONVILLE – Juneteenth is one of the newest federal holidays celebrated in the United States. It commemorates the day ...
Juneteenth is more than a date on the calendar. It’s a powerful reminder of freedom withheld — and a celebration of freedom won ...
Thursday is Juneteenth, a federal holiday, which means some stores and businesses will be closed. Marjorie Taylor Greene ...