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Ashé Cultural Arts Center, the RTA and other groups unveiled a new mural at the Canal Street Ferry as part of the event.
Independence Day celebrations are usually filled with fireworks, parades and patriotic festivities. So, how did it begin?
Louisiana now allows $81 holiday food gifts to public employees, including inspectors and mayors, under new ethics law ...
With Juneteenth crowds behind us and a long July 4th holiday weekend ahead, Disneyland is riding the summer roller coaster of crowd booms and busts. But amidst the heat and hustle, there are also plen ...
Over the course of several hours, before most of the city even finished their morning coffee, Lens photographer Gus Bennett ...
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WHNT) — 805 After Five featuring The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Karmessa has been rescheduled to June 26. The rescheduled event will include a special Juneteenth-themed celebration ...
Kids played in bouncy houses and took pictures with llamas. Food trucks ranging from New Orleans cuisine to Southern barbecue set up shop in the nearby street. Live music was slated for the afternoon.
The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...
A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.
Juneteenth is a celebration of freedom—of culture, community, and of course, self-expression. And what better canvas for that expression than our hair? For generations, our coils, curls, braids ...
New Yorkers flocked to Prospect Park Thursday to celebrate Black Pride in Brooklyn this Juneteenth. “I love the holiday, I like that now it’s a federal holiday,” Ariana Pierre from Queens said.