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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 ...
Joyful celebration of Juneteenth in Portsmouth marks 10th anniversary of African Burying Ground Memorial Park, hailed as ...
June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 806 13th Street Altoona, will host Blair County’s Juneteenth Jubilee at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 21 ...
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 ...
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.
BLUEFIELD – A series of celebrations across the region marking the date when a quarter million enslaved people were informed that they were free gets underway today and continues this weekend. The ...
Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.
As the news that Cardinal Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo XIII percolated into public, my phone buzzed frenetically. I saw ...
The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...
Here is a list of events in Southern Colorado celebrating Juneteenth, acknowledging the day enslaved people in Galveston, ...