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Norfolk’s Calvert Square neighborhood celebrates Juneteenth
WAVY via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoNORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Crowds of people marched in Calvert Square for Juneteenth Wednesday afternoon....
Mapped: Emancipation Proclamation to Juneteenth
Axios· 23 hours agoJuneteenth commemorates the day when enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free 2½½ years after the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation ...
Crowds come out for Augusta’s downtown Juneteenth festival
News 12 Augusta· 16 hours agoThe big event in Augusta was Wednesday’s Juneteenth festival in the parking lot of the James Brown...
‘People have worked so hard.’ Woman who helped make Juneteenth a national holiday visits New Jersey
News 12· 23 hours agoIt’s been three years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday. It commemorates the day enslaved Blacks in Galveston, Texas learned about their freedom ...
'Becoming free in our country': Bay Area communities celebrate Juneteenth
ABC7 News· 11 hours agoFor more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black...
Commemorating Juneteenth, community gathers downtown Springfield to highlight history
Gannett via AOL· 13 hours agoA federally recognized holiday since 2021, the day marks the anniversary in 1865 when news of the...
Salem celebrates Juneteenth
The Salem News· 3 hours agoJuneteenth, which is now a federal holiday, commemorates the official end to slavery in the United States, when on June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in...
The Irony Of Tropical Storm Alberto Forming On Juneteenth
Forbes· 1 day agoJuneteenth is a federal holiday honoring June 19th, 1965. On that date, federal troops arrived in ...
The beginner's guide to celebrating Juneteenth
Las Vegas Sun· 1 day agoMany Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free. For generations,...
Here are 2024 Juneteenth events in Northern California
KCRA 3 Sacramento· 19 hours agoWednesday, June 19, is Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and...
