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Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...
It may be that trying to undo a national holiday, particularly one as publicly embraced as Juneteenth, would be a harder sell ...
Syracuse's own Juneteenth celebrations date back decades, with local Black communities calling it "our Fourth of July." ...
Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...
The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change ...
As many as 3,000 people died as the dikes around Lake Okeechobee gave way to a wall of water, 20 feet in some places.
The multimedia project by local nonprofit United Lynn Pride combines extensive archival research and the oral histories of 32 residents to map the North Shore city’s LGBTQ+ roots.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country.