SWAMPSCOTT, MA — Swampscott S.U.R.E. Diversity founding member Ralph Edwards will be celebrated as a Local Black Excellence ...

The state and local governments would only be able to fly U.S., state, military and prisoner-of-war flags over their ...

The Juneteenth Committee 1865 has launched a community shoe drive with five drop-off locations. The drop-off locations include: Doctors’ Memorial Hospital (DMH) (second floor), New Mount Zion Baptist ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let's ...

Fort Worth's Opal Lee called for unity and courage in a letter to newly sworn-in President Trump on inauguration day.

The KU Powwow and Cultural Arts Festival, Free State Festival and Paper Plains Zine Fest are among 32 events set to receive funding from the City of Lawrence this year. The city’s Unmistakable Events ...

Plano, Illinois recognized Juneteenth as a holiday in February 2021. That same year, it became a state and federal holiday. However, event organizers announced on social media that the 2025 ...

Officials overseeing patents in the Intellectual Property Office [IPO] have been marking Juneteenth. The event on June 19 commemorates the end of slavery in the United States in 1865. President ...

The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups. Although Black Americans have typically been the Klan’s primary target, adherents also ...

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Are banks open on Juneteenth in 2024? That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The answer is no ...

Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, marks the anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger read “General Order No. 3” in Galveston, Texas, declaring ...