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"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...
In this week’s Black and Yellow Report, KRQE Sports Director Van Tate, KRQE Sports Reporter Jared Chester, and Digital Sports ...
Thousands celebrated the freedom, history and culture of the Black community at the Juneteenth in Da Rock festival on Ninth ...
Juneteenth, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the United States, has been honored in Vallejo for decades. This year, ...
Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation into law, officially ...
President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, ...
With flags, ceremonies, parades and pomp, celebrations across the United States marked the day the promise of freedom finally rang true for more Americans.
It’s the 53rd year the event has been celebrating the holiday, which fell on Thursday this year. Juneteenth celebrates the ...
The parade was canceled due to city permitting issues, but the festival continued at the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — June 19, 1865 –the day all people in the United States were officially granted freedom. All across the ...
The day is being marked amid President Donald Trump's ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the federal ...
Local organization Harambee hosted its Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 21, drawing a crowd to Academy Green Park. The federal holiday honors the end of slavery in the ...