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Gloria Carter dances with other attendees during the annual Juneteenth Community Day at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tenn., Thursday, June 19, 2025.
President Donald Trump has issued new proclamations for the Gulf of America Day, WWI and WWII. Did Trump acknowledge Juneteenth, a non-working holiday?
President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.
After regularly honoring Juneteenth during his first term, Trump acknowledged the 2025 holiday with a snarky post on Americans getting too many days off.
In Nashville, organizers of the "Juneteenth615" festival say it's their biggest year yet. Willie Sims, known as Big Fella, says skipping the celebration isn't an option. "So everybody, what if they ...
As Americans observe Juneteenth, Trump lamented the cost of "non-working holidays" in a Truth Social post on Thursday, claiming that there "too many" of the holidays.
Here's a list of what government and local services as well as major businesses, grocery stores, restaurants and more are ...
Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States by commemorating June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas.
Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas.
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