The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they ...

“Cancel Juneteenth or one of the other useless [holidays] we made up,” Ramaswamy, who is vying for the 2024 Republican nomination for president, told a crowd of Iowa voters on Saturday Anna ...

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Las Vegas Valley residents began Juneteenth celebrations Saturday with festivals, music and education on the newest federal holiday. Juneteenth remembers June 19, 1865, when a Union general told ...