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Fairfax City’s Juneteenth celebration, held June 14 in Old Town Square, included food and crafts vendors, children’s ...
Fort Worth-based artist Tatyana Alanis’ latest collaboration is deeply personal. Alanis, who moved to Texas in 2009, is known ...
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, ... "We're celebrating this because we're free and the chains are broken, and we're going to keep those chains broke," Hatcher said. "Peace, ...
As we gather to celebrate Juneteenth, our Freedom Day, we commemorate the moment when enslaved Black people in Texas were finally told they were free, two and a half years after the Emancipation ...
But this Juneteenth block party extends to more than just the descendants of those in chains. “Juneteenth is a big event that’s outside, and it’s not just for black people.
Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (KRIS) — Long before Juneteenth was recognized as a national holiday in 2021, one Coastal Bend family had a vision. In the early 1970s, the late Dorothy Benson was inspired ...
Juneteenth is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," in honor of the day that Granger announced the abolition of slavery in Texas. The holiday is also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.