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Juneteenth 2024: Your guide to celebrations in DC, Maryland and Virginia - WTOP News
WTOP Washington· 19 hours agoOn Wednesday, June 19, the United States will observe Juneteenth. A little history: In 1865, a Union...
Building America: the incredible history of Washington DC
LoveEXPLORING via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPhiladelphia architect Thomas Ustick Walter oversaw a major extension and reimagining of the...
What Is Juneteenth? Everything You Need to Know about This Important Piece of American History
Blavity via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAs of 2021, Juneteenth is officially celebrated nationally on June the 19th. However, this day of...
Where to celebrate Juneteenth in DC, Maryland and Virginia
WDVM via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWASHINGTON (DC News) — Juneteenth is a time for family, friends and community to celebrate the end ...
EXPLAINER: What is Juneteenth?
KNWA Fayetteville via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAs years passed, this informal observance transformed into yearly journeys to Galveston Bay by emancipated individuals and their kin, according to the ...
...Actions to Protect and Preserve Our Nation’s African American History Ahead of Juneteenth ...
The White House· 6 days agoand Vice President Harris have advanced racial justice and asserted that Black history is American ...
Juneteenth celebrated in Las Vegas: ‘This is an American holiday’
Las Vegas Review-Journal· 3 hours agoThis was nearly two years after the Emancipation Proclamation...official holiday on Wednesday,...
Downtown Orlando Celebrates and remembers Juneteenth with a festival
WFTV via Yahoo News· 1 hour agoSaturday, dozens of people in Orlando celebrated and remembered what June 19th, 1865, symbolized and...
Juneteenth is on a Wednesday this year. Here's what will be openand closed on the holiday
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAlthough the Emancipation Proclamation was signed two years earlier, it applied... is it observed...
DC/DOX returns to downtown with a bursting slate of documentaries
Washington Post· 4 days agoWhen AFI Docs paused operations indefinitely that year, Sitney and PR executive Jamie Shor stepped...