For the first time since 1983, a new federal holiday has been created. After passing the House and Senate earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill designating Juneteenth ...

Water main breaks that have plagued the community caused more disruption to the Haledon school calendar than the unrelenting ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON — On Thursday, Senator John ...

Juneteenth is something that nobody had heard of until five years ago and was pushed for political purposes,’ Post Falls ...

On Monday, June 19, we honor and celebrate the day when the last enslaved Americans, nearly a quarter of a million of them in Galveston, Texas, were finally told they were free and slavery was ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 19: People sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing" during a Juneteenth celebration at the African Burial Ground ...