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In mid-June 2025, a rumor spread on social media claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense ( DOD) shared a Flag Day post on X featuring two Russian flags. Flag Day, celebrated annually on June 14, ...
Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...
The fifth annual raising of the Juneteenth flag will begin at 10 a.m., followed by a short reception. This will be the first ...
It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...
Chicago's LGBTQ+ publication Windy City Times curated over 75 Pride Month events happening in Chicago this June. Here are a ...
The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. Celebrations include cookouts, ...
In an industry where carrier identity theft and double brokering schemes cost hundreds of millions annually, Descartes has ...
Dylann Roof has a legitimate claim to the heritage that Nikki Haley upholds for its devotion to family and tradition, traits ...
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country.
On the 100th anniversary of the Leica I's release, we look back at 7 iconic photos snapped by the camera that changed ...