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It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...
The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.
It was Christmas Day and, like tens of thousands of other people in MK, Jazwell Brown as celebrating at home, surrounded by ...
What happens when someone invents Christmas? This hilarious sketch explores the chaotic origins of holiday traditions, from explaining Santa to kids to figuring out why an old man flies across the ...
Mariah Carey also acknowledged that she doesn't pay attention to clocks during an interview with the UK radio station Capital FM ...
Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is not a state holiday in Florida. Here's what to know.
Though foreign to my African culture where celebration and honouring of one’s parent should be a daily event, Father’s Day is a great idea that I wholeheartedly support ...
The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's history and meaning.