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It will be exciting to be back in Marshall this week for the city’s Juneteenth celebration, Kimberly Brown said. “It’s a celebration for all people. It’s part of everyone’s history,” Brown said. Brown ...
The nation’s youngest federal holiday is tomorrow! Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following ...
Here is a list of events in Southern Colorado celebrating Juneteenth, acknowledging the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed they were free.
Tuesday night's A Voice Within concert at Emancipation Park is based on a set of 12 poems penned by Mouton and scored by ...
Redlands’ Juneteenth Festival will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Sylvan Park, 601 N. University St. The free, ...
The fourth annual Longmont Juneteenth Community Celebration is set to happen from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Roosevelt Park.
In Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of the city’s biggest celebrations of the holiday, according to Norman Harris, ...
Positive Brothers United and the NAACP Merced County branch, will host a Juneteenth Festival with food, games, music, trivia ...
Juneteenth, established by President Joe Biden in 2021, is the most recently added federal holiday. Sometimes referred to as ...
Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved people statewide.
Enshrined as a Pennsylvania state holiday since 2019 and a federal one two years later, Juneteenth is a commemoration of June ...
Communities nationwide will honor Juneteenth, the summer holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S., on June 19 ...