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As it is a federal holiday, some services and stores will be closed. Here's what to know ahead of the summer holiday.
Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, has been a federal holiday since 2021.
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...
Juneteenth falls on Thursday, June 19 in 2025. Here's what to know about whether banks, post offices and shipping services will be open.
Teachers never mentioned Blacks, Negroes or anything the entire time I was in school,” he said. “Why, for a time, I thought ...