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The 10th Annual Juneteenth Celebration will take place at Historic Mitchelville Freedom Park from 10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday. There will be food, music and vendors, and tickets can be ...
WHAT: Celebrate Juneteenth Freedom Day with a concert by The Jesse Lees and Scott T. Smith. WHERE: Bicentennial Park, corner of Spring and Pearl streets (118 E. Spring St.), New Albany, Indiana ...
TERRY TANG. June 18, 2024 at 11:07 AM. For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in ...
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States. For decades, activists and congress members (led by many African Americans) proposed legislation, advocated for, and built support for state and national observances. During his campaign for president in June 2020, Joe Biden publicly celebrated the holiday. [125]
A shooting at an event center where a baby shower was being held in the Richmond Hill area of Queens killed a man and injured three other men. May 4: Memphis (4) Tennessee: 1 3 4: Four people were shot, one fatally, near a shopping center in the Hickory Hill neighborhood. May 4: Philadelphia (4) Pennsylvania: 1 3 4
The Juneteenth Ohio Festival is held each year at Franklin Park on Father's Day weekend. Started by Mustafaa Shabazz, JuneteenthOhio is one of the largest African American festivals in the United States, including three full days of music, food, dance, and entertainment by local and national recording artists. The festival holds a Father's Day ...
Hope Mills Juneteenth event. The town of Hope Mills hosts a Juneteenth Liberty & Legacy Celebration from 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday at Dirt Bag Ales, at 5435 Corporation Drive in Hope Mills. Live ...
The following holidays are observed by the majority of US businesses with paid time off: New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, [2] Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, the day after known as Black Friday, Christmas Eve and Christmas. There are also numerous holidays on the state and local level that are observed to varying degrees.