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The United States Postal Service (USPS) will be closed on Juneteenth, meaning no mail will be delivered. However, FedEx ...
Across Connecticut, communities celebrated the Juneteenth holiday. Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday. Federal ...
Middletown's fifth annual Juneteenth parade saw Connecticut marching bands bring different styles of music to the streets of ...
While some states have acknowledged Juneteenth in symbolic ways or through commemorative events, others have chosen to mark ...
Juneteenth celebrations are taking place across the state today, despite efforts from the Trump administration to roll back ...
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Connecticut marks Juneteenth
The holiday marks June 19, 1865, when Union Army Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that ...
Shiloh Archibald highlights music as a unifying force in Middletown's Juneteenth parade.
A historic Black family is getting recognition in Simsbury this Juneteenth. In the 1770s, a man named Peter Jackson was ...
“The heightened sense of the unknown, and the political climate between the nation and the world, we wanted people, even for ...
Lilly, the head of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families, wants state residents to focus on mental health this ...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — By the time the drumming and dancing starts Thursday, an organization that promotes African American ...
But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No ...