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Mickey Guyton reflects on the legacy of “Black Like Me” from halfway across the world in China, where she’s still sharing her ...
The Palm Springs Black History Committee has hosted a series of events throughout the Juneteenth weekend, and plans to close ...
"You never know what you have until it's gone and a lot is being stripped away," former Biden White House official Erica Loewe told theGrio.
President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.
Donald Trump threatened to send the National Guard to other American cities after a major legal win in California’s case ...
Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination ...
Juneteenth has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday.
Meanwhile, former President Joe Biden celebrated the federal holiday he signed into law at a celebration at a historic Black ...
On Juneteenth, the community celebrated the groundbreaking for the African Baptist Meeting House and the public opening of ...
On Truth Social, Trump celebrated Juneteenth by claiming America’s non-working or federal holidays costs the “country ...
President Donald Trump opined on Truth Social that there are "too many non-working holidays in America," and they are harming ...