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In a 2019 National Retail Federation poll, 2.6 percent of people who planned to celebrate a winter holiday said they would celebrate Kwanzaa. [40] Roughly 14% of the United States population is African American. Starting in the 1990s, the holiday became increasingly commercialized, with the first Hallmark card being sold in 1992. [41]
March 10: Harriet Tubman Day: 1: 2000: Maryland (2000) [10] The death of Harriet Tubman May 19: Malcolm X Day: 1: 2015: Illinois (2015) [11] The birthday of Malcolm X August 4: Barack Obama Day: 1: 2017: Illinois (2017) [12] The birthday of Barack Obama February 4: Transit Equality Day: 1: 2022: Wisconsin (2022) [13] The birthday of Rosa Parks ...
N. Naked Mile (event) National Beer Day (United States) National Cartoonist Day; National Corndog Day; National Day of Listening; National Day of Reason
For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
Holidays are a time to get together and celebrate what's important. But let's be honest, they can be a little boring. Luckily, pop culture has given us alternative holidays that are a little more ...
According to lore, Dan's father invented the holiday for the very same reasons echoed in the sitcom episode: to have a secular occasion void of the consumerism that often characterizes Christmas ...
American prisoner artist, C-Note's, 2016, ink on paper artwork, Black August - Los Angeles. Black August is an annual commemoration and prison-based holiday to remember Black political prisoners, Black freedom struggles in the United States and beyond, and to highlight Black resistance against racial, colonial and imperialist oppression.
Holiday names are usually pretty straightforward. New Year's, Thanksgiving and — perhaps least creatively, the 4th of July — all have origins that are fairly easy to figure out.