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Michigan will celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2025. Here's a look at what's open and closed on the federal holiday.
Detroit is honoring Juneteenth this year with community events blending history, art, sports and even rodeo. The big picture: ...
EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - Juneteenth events are planned this week around East Texas. Power Wheel Parade - Woldert Park 701 W.
Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved people statewide.
While Juneteenth is recognized as a state and federal holiday, private businesses don't have to close or offer the day off. Here's what some Atlanta businesses have planned.
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...
Bristol Black Collective is honoring Juneteenth in Fall River with a brunch, a celebration, and a community reading of ...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and ...
María Esther Hammack, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, believes the first Juneteenth celebrations in Nacimiento may have been held as early as the 1870s due to military families ...
FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee, considered the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," was recently hospitalized, but her family says she is doing well. "She is doing well and in good spirits," Lee's ...
Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," is shown at her Fort Worth home on January 16, 2025.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Opal Lee, a longtime Fort Worth civil rights leader known as the ...