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LIST: East Texas Juneteenth celebrations 2024
KETK Tyler via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoTYLER, Texas (KETK) – Next Wednesday is June 19, also known as Juneteenth, a day that commemorates Black people being freed from slavery after the Civil...
Here are 8 ways to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday in Springfield
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoJuneteenth is Wednesday, June 19. The national holiday honors the day all enslaved people learned of...
Juneteenth is on a Wednesday this year. Here's what will be open and closed on the holiday
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 21 hours agoAlthough the Emancipation Proclamation was signed two years earlier, it applied only to areas under...
This Is Why Juneteenth Is Celebrated With Red Foods
Delish via Yahoo News· 14 hours agoHistory buffs likely know that the Emancipation Proclamation became official on January 1, 1863. But news of the Civil War ending and the enslaved...
Residents celebrate Juneteenth Saturday
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner· 2 days agoThe news that enslaved people would be free didn’t reach Galveston Bay, Texas until June 19, 1865 — more than two years after Abraham Lincoln issued the ...
KMBC Editorial: Juneteenth
KMBC-TV Kansas City· 6 hours agoWe are set to celebrate America’s second Independence Day.
8 days of Juneteenth celebrations to kick off Saturday in Akron
Akron Beacon Journal via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoJuneteenth, officially celebrated June 19, remembers the day when the last enslaved person in the...
Attend these Juneteenth events at Augusta Museum of History
News 12 Augusta· 10 hours agoJuneteenth is right around the corner, and in honor of the day, the Augusta Museum of History is...
2024 Juneteenth celebrations in the Charlotte area
WSOC-TV Charlotte· 5 hours agoJuneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery -- June 19 was the day that the last slaves in the U.S. were made aware of their...
Lake County’s Juneteenth celebration continues to grow; ‘A recognition … of the time we decreed all...
Chicago Tribune· 12 hours agoHistorically, June 19, 1865, was when news of the slaves’ emancipation was announced in Galveston,...
