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Tennessee has passed laws restricting teaching of diverse concepts but Black historians find ways to continue teaching about ...
For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are fighting to preserve history.
Thursday marks the first national observance under President Donald Trump of Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of ...
Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.
The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining "June" and "nineteenth" — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.
Kendrick Lamar, Ledisi and others are creating the soundtrack for this cultural inflection point and for the legacy of ...
A sculptural exhibition on Mall C in downtown Cleveland has captured the imagination of the city as Juneteenth approaches. "The Stories of Us" takes the social nature of public art to a new level.
Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of the last slaves in the United States. It was June 19th of 1865 in Texas when the ...
"The freedom Juneteenth commemorates was never a finish line. It was always a starting point," writes Eric K. Ward.
It is often referred to as “America’s Second Independence Day,” highlighting the distinct path to freedom that Black ...
Juneteenth is the commemoration of when the last enslaved Black people in Texas found out they were free. But, like now, the truth was irrevelevant without the knowledge.