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The Statesman has gathered 9 Juneteenth events to celebrate the state and federal holiday, from car shows to cookouts, in the ...
Juneteenth, a national holiday celebrating the final emancipation of enslaved people, prompts many Austin communities to host ...
KXAN's Avery Travis and Will DuPree sit down with Donovan Spann, a lead guide with Black Austin Tours. He highlights events ...
Austin Community College District’s (ACC) will hold its Juneteenth Celebration on Wednesday, June 18, at the Eastview Campus ...
Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion ...
In Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of ...
In 2021, then-president Joe Biden signed a bill that made Juneteenth an official federal holiday. This historic legislation ...
Stacey Allen has to tip her cap to Spike Lee —the pilgrimage that Malcolm X, played by Denzel Washington, makes to Mecca in ...
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued more than two ...