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For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...
Juneteenth became an official federal holiday starting in 2021 under former President Joe Biden to recognize the freedom of ...
Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in ...
Mail deliveries may be impacted on Juneteenth, the holiday in which Americans celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.
In 2021, then-president Joe Biden signed a bill that made Juneteenth an official federal holiday. This historic legislation ...
One hundred and sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is ...
As Americans celebrated Juneteenth, President Donald Trump raged at the newest federal holiday in a posting on his Truth ...
Four years after being officially recognized as a national holiday, Juneteenth will be celebrated throughout City with an ...
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...
Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...
Across the country, Juneteenth celebrations have seen support pulled, likely a result of new antagonism toward DEI programs, ...
The smell of BBQ-slathered ribs crackling on Unc’s grill. Kids reciting all three verses of “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” ...