“Our tournament is the third oldest on the planet,” Applebaum, the chief executive officer of Golf Canada, said from New York where he attended Thursday’s first round of the U.S. Open. Only the ...
Juneteenth is observed annually on June 19 and is a commemoration of the events that took place 160 years ago in Galveston.
Black Americans have been celebrating Juneteenth for more than a century, but it's only been a federal holiday for a few ...
Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned they were free. Here is the history behind it.
It honors the moment — on June 19, 1865 — that Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that ...
Today, the nation observes Juneteenth, a day commemorating when the last enslaved people in the U.S. found out they were free ...