Since the late 1800s, African Americans have celebrated Juneteenth, a commemoration of June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Texas received word of their freedom – two years after ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University Combining history and memoir, Annette ...

The park shelter has been reserved. You’ve told everyone where to be and what to bring (Grandma’s favorite dessert!) and someone will set up games to occupy the kids. Your whole family celebrates ...

June 19, 1865, marked the first Juneteenth celebrations. Formerly enslaved Americans living in Texas got the official word that they were free men and women that day — more than two years after the ...

Lavaille Lavette, a New York Times best-selling author, said her greatest satisfaction is telling stories about people, places, things, and events that everyone should remember. “Jayylen’s Juneteenth ...

“Good Times” star Bern Nadette Stanis will be a guest at the Juneteenth Book Festival on Saturday at the Carver Library. “We want to promote reading and writing and also historical knowledge of black ...

Since the late 1800s, African Americans have celebrated Juneteenth, a commemoration of June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Texas received word of their freedom – two years after ...

Players at the Juneteenth of the Carolinas' inaugural drum circle kicked off the celebration in 2022. Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a moving history of ...