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The celebration also acknowledges Utah's Black history, which dates back to the earliest pioneers traveling west in the 1800s. McDonald describes Juneteenth as a day of jubilee and community.
Utah's Juneteenth celebrations concluded June 28 with a reconciliation vigil, focused on healing and remembering the ongoing journey toward equality and equity.
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President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On Wednesday, Black community leaders from across the country ...
Nash said the Grayslake Juneteenth event began as a, “personal 5K walk with me and my children, inspired by Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday. “It took over two years (June 19, 1865) for ...
President Donald Trump said the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays," but he hasn't shied away from other holiday proclamations. In an apparent critique of Juneteenth, Trump said in a June 19 ...
As Americans observe Juneteenth, Trump lamented the cost of "non-working holidays" in a Truth Social post on Thursday, claiming that there "too many" of the holidays.
Trump says 'too many non-working holidays' Trump's post on Juneteenth criticized the number of federal holidays, which most federal workers have as paid holidays. There are 12 federal holidays in ...
Having written a column earlier this week about the ambivalent status of the federal Juneteenth holiday in the wake of the second Trump administration’s assault on race-conscious anti ...
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President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.