In June, the United States will celebrate the date aptly described as our country’s second independence day by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. President Joe Biden ...
The federal holiday of Juneteenth falls on Thursday and will mean a number of closures for certain businesses. The annual holiday falls on June 19 and was first designated a holiday in 2021 by ...
President Donald Trump canceled MLK Day and Juneteenth celebratory discounts nationwide. Here's what that means.
If you have the day off on Thursday, June 19, for Juneteenth, you might be wondering if you will be able to cross a few errands off your to-do list. The nation will be celebrating its youngest federal ...
Juneteenth will be marked on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — when federal soldiers arrived in Galveston to take control of Texas and ensure the slaves were ...
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Learn ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.Learn ...