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Emancipation Days - like Juneteenth in Texas - are not what many people think, because emancipation did not do what most of ...
Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill making Juneteenth a permanent state holiday, closing state offices annually on June 19 to ...
Gov. Kay Ivey on Thursday signed HB165 into law, declaring Juneteenth a state holiday. “Since President Trump observed ...
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 ...
The United Community Organization has announced plans for a three-day celebration of Juneteenth that will be held from June ...
“You can’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’ve been,” he said, standing at attention in the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue ahead of D.C.’s Emancipation Day parad ...
Juneteenth (also referred to as “Freedom Day”) celebrations vary by community. In Seattle, there are a number of ways to ...
Harrisburg will mark the 2025 Juneteenth holiday with a parade for the first time. The Juneteenth parade will be in ...
WASHINGTON — Each year on April 16, Washington, D.C., celebrates Emancipation Day — the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act into law ...