The annual Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony, featuring guest speakers including Mayor Brandon Johnson, was held Monday ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday — expanding its ...

Johnson unveiled a reparations plan and grant program for the community impacted by "historic slavery" amid a DOJ racism probe.

Black Girl Vitamins believes that in America's current political climate, Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

US President Donald Trump arrived in Canada on Sunday for the Group of Seven leaders' summit.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Area residents are invited once again to join in with all of the Juneteenth activities that are being brought to us by the ...

MLK Jr. Parade & Juneteenth Celebration is this Thursday, June 19, 2025. You’re sure to see a neighbor. Parade lineup starts at 8:30 a.m. at Chilhowee Park and steps off at 10 a.m., marching down ...

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The school is celebrating its 30th anniversary, the first 24 years in a storefront on Oak Park Avenue and the last six years ...

Juneteenth is coming up, which means many businesses will be closed. Find out if banks in Illinois will be open.