CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Election season is underway for the 2025 municipal elections, held during odd-numbered years. These elections are for offices on the local levels that make decisions ...

Along with Memorial Day and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth became one of three federal holidays with explicit roots in Black history. Memorial Day was made a national observance in 1868 to ...

In 2021, in the midst of this “racial reckoning,” as it was often called, Congress passed legislation turning Juneteenth into “Juneteenth National Independence Day,” a federal holiday.

Since the Civil Rights Movement, however, Juneteenth has been generally recognized as the nation’s second independence day. It became an official federal holiday in 2021 and an official state ...

The deadline to qualify to run in a municipal election is today - June 24 at 5 p.m., but with Alabama’s municipal elections approaching, there are several key dates to keep in mind. In the ...