June 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States holiday. Also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America's second Independence Day ...

Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of ...

“Today is my birthday and it’s been that way for 38 years. You’re welcome for the day off.” Juneteenth is, in fact, a ...

The area is still known as Emancipation Park ... Floyd and racial justice protests in the summer of 2020. Juneteenth Independence Day is now the 11th holiday recognized by the federal government.

Gavin Newsom proclaimed June 15 as “Juneteenth National Freedom Day: A Day of Observance.” “California is proud to recognize Juneteenth as an official state holiday, honoring the centuries of ...

Juneteenth National Independence Day commemorates the freeing of slaves ... declared free under the terms of Abraham Lincoln’s 1862 Emancipation Proclamation,” organizer Mark Frederick said.

That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that commemorates the emancipation ... Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

The festival will celebrate Juneteenth in partnership with several organizations following the traditional festivities on ...

The Milwaukee music festival is working with Northcott Neighborhood House, which organizes Milwaukee's long-running ...

Juneteenth celebrates the day when more than 250,000 slaves were freed on June ... “Kumbayah the Juneteenth Story” tells the “tremendously uplifting” story of the news of emancipation being withheld ...

Gary Clark Jr., Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Joy Oladokun are month the names slated to perform on the festival's first Thursday.

In addition to Committee business, the meeting featured the discussion, Define the Narrative – Juneteenth ... on the true events surrounding the day, Penrice and Abbot discussed topics including the ...