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Enshrined as a Pennsylvania state holiday since 2019 and a federal one two years later, Juneteenth is a commemoration of June ...
Thousands of Philadelphians are expected to gather along 52nd Street in West Philadelphia Sunday to see colorful parade ...
From trash pickup and grocery store hours to public transit and mail delivery, here’s what’s open and closed around Philadelphia for Juneteenth on Thursday, June 19.
Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Kennett Square heralds itself as the mushroom capital of the world. But what many people don't know is that it was a crucial stop for freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad.
Juneteenth is just around the corner. We look at where you can celebrate around western Washington and break down how the ...
Unable to operate Downtown this year, The Western Pennsylvania Juneteenth Celebration relocates to Shadyside's Mellon Park ...
Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...
Celebration of Freedom and the Arts Festival talk about the free event taking place in Indian Head, MD this Thursday and the ...
We don’t do kings here’: Photos from Saturday’s march Millions of people took part nationwide in Saturday’s […] ...