With Juneteenth only a page and a half away on ... "Sometimes they come in and say: 'Oh, she's cute! OK, let's see what she does.' But this year, we really want to draw them into the contestants ...

Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of ...

In anticipation of Juneteenth, our experts have put together a helpful guide for families to educate and engage children around this important holiday. The Civil War ended in April 1865, but news of ...

An important face attended the YMCA of High Point’s Juneteenth celebration ... “Now I had on heels, but I figured that was too cute to come home. So I put on my blue and whites for my SGRhos ...

This year’s Juneteenth Festival in Elgin’s Festival Park has been canceled because the date organizers wanted for the event was given to a different group, the African American Coalition of ...

They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’ together, and has been celebrated every year by African-American people to ...

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 ...

The Indiana National Guard has deleted past social media posts celebrating Black History Month, Juneteenth, Women's History Month and other cultural celebrations, as part of a new Department of ...