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Juneteenth is also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day, Black Fourth of July and second Independence Day among other names The post A beginner’s guide to Juneteenth: ...
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 ...
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
The city of Fayetteville and the Cool Spring Downtown District hosts its 3rd Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, with the theme: Their Wildest Dreams from 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Festival Park, 335 Ray Ave.
For the third year in a row, on Saturday, June 15, locals celebrated Black energy with a Juneteenth festival in Martin Luther King Park, full of vendors, performances, and conversations about the ...
The Juneteenth flag was designed in 1997 by activist Ben Haith (also known as "Boston Ben"). [1] Haith displayed the first version of the Juneteenth flag in June 1997 at Boston's John Eliot Square District. It was described by Patricia Smith of the Boston Globe as, "A banner adorned with sunbursts and flaming candles". [2]
It became a U.S. federal holiday in 2021, following the signing of a bill by President Joe Biden. Long a regional holiday in the South, Juneteenth rose in prominence across the country following ...
Peoples helped make Juneteenth recognized by the City of Portland in 1972. Mayor Sam Adams and Amanda Fritz declared Peoples the "Mother of Juneteenth" in 2011. [1] [2] Juneteenth became an observed holiday for the City of Portland and Multnomah County employees in 2020, as part of a resolution to address structural racism.