Celebrating freedom, community, education & achievement. William & Mary is joining communities around the country to recognize and celebrate Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the United ...

What does Juneteenth celebrate? June 19 is honored as the first time Black Americans were thought of as free people in this country. The celebrations for Juneteenth began in 1866 ...

When troops finally arrived to signal freedom to the state’s 250,000 slaves, celebrations broke out and Juneteenth was born! Read! Learn! Listen! Cook and Create! There are so many ways to learn and ...

Juneteenth celebrations declined until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. These laws were created to force black people to live, work, and play separately. This was known as segregation.

“I think we are carrying the spirit and the torch of that Juneteenth promise in the work we’re doing in this celebration.” “Kumbayah the Juneteenth Story” tells the “tremendously uplifting” story of ...

Gen. Gordon Granger, this informed the people of Texas that all slaves were free. Juneteenth is the celebration of this order, with Black communities marking the occasion for decades before it ...

A celebration ... got much work to do and we see this as a great beginning to do something about the disparities in our country." Affectionately known as the grandmother of Juneteenth, Ms Lee ...

MLS has announced a wide-ranging series of initiatives to celebrate ... the significance of Juneteenth, celebrates all players as agents of change, and unites around the work yet to be done.

She said the Juneteenth federal holiday was brought forward to "commemorate the end of chattel slavery, America's original sin, and to bring about celebration". Fourteen House Republicans voted ...