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Freedom Center announces 2025 International Freedom Conductor Awards with honorees Opal Lee, Lonnie G. Bunch III, Toni Morrison, and Isabel Wilkerson.
Donald Trump has promised to impose “reciprocal tariffs” on “all countries” today. Tariffs on many vehicles and auto parts ...
A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...
For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth.
The Metuchen Edison Piscataway Area Branch of the NAACP’s Juneteenth celebration this year has been moved off federal ...
The Black Expo’s “Juneteenth on the Ohio River” will return at 4 p.m. June 21 in English Park. This will be OBE’s eighth Juneteenth celebration overall, following its debut program in 2018. Juneteenth ...
While the Emancipation Proclamation declared enslaved people ... That day, now known as Juneteenth, became a celebration of freedom and resilience. Even then, freedom came with challenges.
Abi Boatman, a transgender military veteran, accepted the proclamation for Transgender Day of Visibility at Tuesday’s Wichita City Council meeting and held up a picture of a Nazi book burning.
Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, when slaves on Galveston Island learned of the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves were free – more than two years after it was signed. "Juneteenth is ...
Scottsdale cut funding for Juneteenth, ended employee affinity groups and stopped sponsoring business organizations for Black, Hispanic and LGBTQ+ people as it implements the new DEI ban the City ...
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly narrowly approved Juneteenth, or June 19, as an official paid holiday for borough staff at its meeting on Thursday. The 5-4 decision would increase the ...
and removed as Alien Enemies,” Trump wrote in the proclamation, which grants Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, the authority to enforce deportation measures. The president ...