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The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey hosted a Juneteenth Bazaar and Show on Thursday at The Noyes Arts ...
Juneteenth is observed on June 19 and several celebrations are scheduled to take place this weekend, including the Central ...
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Juneteenth celebration comes to Staunton
The annual Juneteenth celebration is returning to Staunton this weekend. Juneteenth itself is June 19 every year, but the celebrations have taken place on the weekends before and after the federal ...
As I stand in the sun-drenched park, the aroma of barbecue smoke wafts through the air, curling upward like a prayer.
Joyful celebration of Juneteenth in Portsmouth marks 10th anniversary of African Burying Ground Memorial Park, hailed as ...
New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...
June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has stunned the world again — this time with his ancestry. A recent revelation ...
Roderick Miles Jr., the Tarrant County Commissioner of Precinct 1, hugs Dione Sims, the granddaughter of Opal Lee, following ...
Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.
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.
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 ...