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But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...
The African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey hosted a Juneteenth Bazaar and Show on Thursday at The Noyes Arts ...
At the heart of the Brooklyn Public Library, over 100 young entrepreneurs gathered Thursday for the Fifth Annual Central Brooklyn Juneteenth Festival and Teen Entrepreneur ...
Federal law allows members of Congress to visit any Department of Homeland Security facility unannounced to conduct oversight ...
Plano, Ill., made national news in 2021 when it designated Juneteenth a holiday before the state or federal government. But this year, Plano’s fifth annual celebration is canceled. Organizer Jamal ...
On January 16, 1865, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 which ordered the ...
A Juneteenth flag was raised at Verona Town Hall on Monday morning in place of the American flag, prompting questions over ...
In New Jersey, the last Northern state to abolish slavery, Black neighborhoods continue to suffer under the weight of ...
New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...
"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...
Ahhhhh. The Maloney’s crowd was all over last week’s trivia question about the Jersey Shore’s most-missed bar, with its ...