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Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American ...
Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the emancipation of enslaved ...
Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history ...
As communities across the United States mark Juneteenth, food is central to the celebration. The holiday, observed on June 19 ...
As Juneteenth 2025 approaches, Houston and Galveston are holding events, a parade and festivals to mark the historic holiday.
They were honoring the past and celebrating the future on Tuesday at the Erie Veterans Hospital during their second annual ...
Juneteenth celebrations will take place in cities and town across the country. This national holiday celebrates the day union ...
Because Juneteenth is now classified as a federal holiday, many government offices and services will be closed on Thursday.
Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, will be commemorated Thursday with several ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ...