Marqueta Collins with Believe In Your Body Movement Boutique was selling T-shirts at the Juneteenth Cookout, hosted by the Kansas City Defender and Decarcerate KC. At the Juneteenth Cookout, families, ...
The federal holiday of Juneteenth falls on Thursday and will mean a number of closures for certain businesses. The annual holiday falls on June 19 and was first designated a holiday in 2021 by ...
It's time to celebrate Juneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...
Juneteenth celebrations are taking place nationwide Sunday. Opal Lee, 95, has spent much of her life advocating for civil rights. When she was just 12, her family home was vandalized and set ablaze by ...
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – June 19th, or Juneteenth, marks the emancipation of slavery in the United States. The day is both a federally and state-recognized holiday here in South Dakota. While most ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” But on this year’s ...