Thirty-six-year-old Ernst Jean-Jacques Jr. had always been an active member of his community. Working in the human services field in the Lynn area, he assisted with early and middle high school ...

Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of ...

It's Super Bowl Week and New Orleans is pulling out all of the stops for the big game at Caesar's Superdome on Sunday night, ...

Plano, Illinois recognized Juneteenth as a holiday in February 2021. That same year, it became a state and federal holiday. However, event organizers announced on social media that the 2025 ...

Are banks open on Juneteenth in 2024? That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The answer is no ...

Main Street banners are used several times throughout ... In its nearly 10 years of operation, the group has established an ...

The Pentagon’s intelligence agency has put on hold observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other annual historical or cultural events due to ...

They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’ together, and has been celebrated every year by African-American people to ...

WASHINGTON — Federal agencies on Friday rushed to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curtailing diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The executive orders ...

In 2016, at age 89, Lee walked from Fort Worth to Washington, D.C., as part of her goal of making Juneteenth a national holiday. Outgoing President Joe Biden made it a holiday in 2021.