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Celebrate Juneteenth this month with concerts, dance, food across the city at the Madam Walker Legacy Center, Crispus Attucks Museum and more.
Pensacola will celebrate the nation's newest, and perhaps most deeply joyous holiday, with festivals, music, food and a look toward the future.
Cape Cod and the Islands will host various Juneteenth celebrations, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. Events ...
Annual celebrations of Juneteenth have taken place long before the federal recognition. Mississippi does not honor Juneteenth as a state holiday, but many celebrations still take place and some get ...
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. At this point in time, the American Civil ...
As the country approaches another Fourth of July—its annual celebration of independence—there is another patriotic milestone ...
The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War. It declared that all ...
Juneteenth, a holiday that was mostly celebrated by Black families in the South, commemorates the end of slavery in the ...
The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) will celebrate freedom this month with an array of special Juneteenth events, including a free exhibition of a copy of the Emancipation ...
On June 19, 1865, news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, and the last enslaved people in America ...
The Allen County Public Library’s downtown headquarters will host free Juneteenth activities on Thursday, including a lecture, a teacher field trip and an exhibit. The public is invited.
Celebrations are set across Northern Virginia for the nation’s youngest holiday, Juneteenth National Independence Day, which celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.