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. Also called “America’s ...
Marqueta Collins with Believe In Your Body Movement Boutique was selling T-shirts at the Juneteenth Cookout, hosted by the Kansas City Defender and Decarcerate KC. At the Juneteenth Cookout, families, ...
Juneteenth celebrations are taking place nationwide Sunday. Opal Lee, 95, has spent much of her life advocating for civil rights. When she was just 12, her family home was vandalized and set ablaze by ...
It's time to celebrate Juneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.Learn ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” But on this year’s ...
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