by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 46th president of the United States: 2021—2025 The people of Galveston, Texas, have been commemorating Juneteenth since the...
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by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 46th president of the United States: 2021—2025 The people of Galveston, Texas, have been commemorating Juneteenth since the Civil War ended. Yesterday, in honor of the 160th anniversary, I went there to join them. You can read about the events of Juneteenth, but there’s nothing quite like going to Galveston and seeing where it all happened. After General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, Union troops marched across the South for two months, freeing enslaved people along the way. Their final stop was Galveston, an island off the Gulf coast of Texas. There, on June 19, 1865, Union troops went to Reedy Chapel, a church founded in 1848...
by Joseph R. Biden, Jr., 46th president of the United States: 2021—2025 The people of Galveston, Texas, have been commemorating Juneteenth since the...
Before Juneteenth fades away in the rearview mirror, as yet another Republican president recklessly drives us toward yet another unwinnable war in the...
Before Juneteenth fades away in the rearview mirror, as yet another Republican president recklessly drives us toward yet another unwinnable war in the...
I don't pay attention to most holidays in other countries, but there is on that uplifts my spirit south of the border today. Today is June 19th, the...
I don't pay attention to most holidays in other countries, but there is on that uplifts my spirit south of the border today. Today is June 19th, the...
MSC Cruises will introduce a new thrill-seeking attraction to MSC Seascape ahead of the ship's arrival to its new home port in Galveston, Texas later...
For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in...
For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in...
Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on view in Colonial...
By Wanjiru Njoya When a just war of defense turns into a war of revenge, it ceases to be a just war and becomes an unjust war of aggression. That...