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TRIO Destination College students recognized at banquet
Journal Gazette & Times-Courier· 8 hours agoLake Land’s TRIO Destination College programs provide high school and junior high students with...
Delhi to host Civil War reenactment
The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y. via Yahoo News· 5 days agoDubbed "Clash in the Catskills," reenactors from the 144th New York reenactment Group will portray Union and Confederate soldiers to ...
Fairbanks celebrates Juneteenth with festival at Bernice Allridge Park
KTVF Fairbanks· 3 days agoAfter hundreds of years of slavery in North America, the Union defeated the recently seceded ...
The history and significance of Juneteenth
CW39 NewsFix· 6 days agoJuneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country’s second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom....
Letters | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette· 4 days agoU.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman, supported by his fellow Arkansas Republican representatives, is adamant that the Little Rock Veterans Administration Hospital...
When is Juneteenth? What is Juneteenth? Here's why we celebrate, plus events in Asheville
Gannett via AOL· 6 days agoThe Civil War ended in April 1865, and on June 19 of the same year, Union soldiers delivered the...
A Juneteenth history lesson, remembrance at Civil War soldier's grave site in Riverhead
Newsday· 2 days agoAmid a bloody Civil War in which the freedom of millions of enslaved people likely hung in the...
Lodi woman and her cousin killed in plane crash
Lodi News-Sentinel· 4 days agoThe Lodi Police Department’s Partners team lost one of its members in a plane crash near Lake Tahoe this week. Gabrielle Singer said her mother Nannette,...
What is Juneteenth? Here's what's open and closed, plus events in Asheville
Asheville Citizen-Times· 6 days agoIn June, the United States will celebrate the date aptly described as our country’s second...
Essay winners: Juneteenth lets us remember nation's past while striving for better future
Lansing State Journal via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe festival started in Galveston, Texas, where on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers conveyed the news...