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A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...
In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...
For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth.
The fifth annual Juneteenth Jubilee will be held on June ... National Museum of African American History and the presidential proclamation. The announcement came more than two years after ...
to enforce the proclamation. His reading of General Order No. 3 declared, “All slaves are free.” That day, now known as Juneteenth, became a celebration of freedom and resilience. Even then ...
On June 19, you can hear a reading of the 45th annual Juneteenth Proclamation at Ashton Villa. The event honors Al Edwards, the former representative who advocated for Juneteenth to become a state ...
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 ...
Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration on June 19 that marks the day that news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread to Texas in 1865. Emancipation Day was made an ...
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 ...
When Guillermo Nurse was elected mayor of Oxford, N.C, a city he’s called home for 15 years, he said unifying his fellow ...