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Juneteenth is Wednesday, June 19, and the holiday commemorates the day enslaved African Americans in Texas were finally freed on June 19, 1865, according to the National Museum of African American ...
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 Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...
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Oyens is located at (42.819432, -96.057790 [ 3 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 0.09 square miles (0.23 km 2 ), all land.
Juneteenth became one of five date-specific federal holidays along with New Year's Day (January 1), Independence Day (July 4), Veterans Day (November 11), and Christmas Day (December 25). Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.
The annual Downtown Block Party returns for its seventh year, taking over several Iowa City blocks from 4-11 p.m. on Saturday, June 22. The Block Party consumes 14 blocks with an array of musical ...
The Iowa City Press-Citizen is a daily newspaper published in Iowa City, Iowa, United States that serves most of Johnson County and portions of surrounding counties. Its primary competitors are The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, which has a news bureau in Iowa City, and The Daily Iowan, the University of Iowa's student newspaper.
The city of Fayetteville and the Cool Spring Downtown District hosts its 3rd Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, with the theme: Their Wildest Dreams from 1 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Festival Park, 335 Ray Ave.