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Like with most federal holidays, the U.S. Post Office will be closed on Thursday, June 19, 2025, for Juneteenth. Both UPS and ...
The only known original copy of General Order No. 3, an 1865 decree that alerted enslaved people in Galveston of their ...
A column I wrote a month ago theorized that our president was a peacenik. He evaded the draft to avoid the Vietnam War, and ...
City Hall and all municipal buildings in Springfield will be closed on Thursday to observe Juneteenth, and the annual Freedom Day concert with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra will be held at ...
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. Celebrations include cookouts, ...
On Monday morning at the Lanett Senior Center, Greater Valley Juneteenth Committee Chair Trudye Johnson encouraged Lanett ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...
Schools in New York will have an extra day off this year, which will be a little taste of freedom before summer ...
Temperatures are expected to range from the upper 80s into the mid 90s across Florida on June 19. In east central Florida, the heat index could reach 105 on Juneteenth and into the weekend.