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President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.
Today marks Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.The holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, ...
Juneteenth is a day of celebration for Americans, and a time to recall the end of chattel slavery on June 19, 1865.
Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery ...
"Since this is a national holiday, it's time for us to bring something bigger to the Central Valley," said Landon Green, The Freedom Groups. "This Juneteenth is the largest African American festival ...
Juneteenth, a fairly new federal holiday, remembers June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally notified that they were freed through the Emancipation Proclamation, issued over two ...
The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that over 250,000 remaining enslaved people in Texas were ...
The last enslaved people in America learned of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation 160 years ago. It took two years after the proclamation was issues by President Lincoln for word to ...
Government and state offices will be closed, as will the U.S. Post Office. That means there will be no mail delivery on ...
The African American Historical and Genealogical Society of Colorado Springs hosted the Juneteenth celebration outside the Westside Community Center in Old Colorado City on Thursday afternoon.
June 19th, 1865 was the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the emancipation proclamation ...