The US Congress has overwhelmingly passed a bill to add a federal holiday to the calendar marking Juneteenth - the end of slavery in the nation. The House of Representatives backed the legislation ...
Police arrested Rosa Parks on Dec. 1, 1955. It could become the first federal holiday to honor a woman, under a bill filed by ...
Scioto Township Trustee Barton Fannin has said he will not resign after making the comment, but he would "apologize to anyone ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Scioto Township trustee said he will not step down after he used a racial slur describing the Juneteenth ...
No, federal holiday status doesn't guarantee anyone other than federal workers the day off but it's largely grown to mean ...
A predominantly white community in Ohio is urging a public official to resign from his role on the township’s trustee board ...
MAULDIN, S.C (FOX Carolina) - A vote was reached by the Mauldin City Council to accept Juneteenth as an official city holiday beginning in 2024. The vote was reached unanimously. This is the first ...
LAKELAND — Amid the long holiday week of Thanksgiving, Lakeland officials were asked to add another holiday to their 2024 list. Harlem Turner, president of the Rose Heights Elks Lodge, requested ...
The Scioto Township meeting was standing room only during the November 30th meeting, most came to demand that Trustee Barton ...
U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Selma, has proposed a bill that would make Dec. 1 a federal holiday commemorating the arrest of Rosa Parks. Sewell bill has the backing of the Congressional Black Caucus.
A Pickaway County official wanted to deny Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, from being a holiday awarded firefighters in their new contract. And during a Nov. 17 ...
