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Cultural and food booths, entertainment and an invitation to join in the dancing were part of Skokie’s Juneteenth celebration ...
Juneteenth celebrations are set to kick off across the country this week despite waning support amid the Trump administration's attack on DEI.
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...
Oak Park has found a new leader for its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
It’s been four years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, and Black revelers in metro Atlanta are finding unique ways ...
Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion ...
Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...
The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.
Tony Hilkin, chief executive of Places for People, a local nonprofit mental health provider, sent an email to staff this spring saying the organization would no longer participate in Pride ...
IndyStar wants to argue that Rokita is fighting a "culture war". Why isn't it just fighting against racial discrimination?