Juneteenth

This week in history: June 19-25

June 19, 2025 The Associated Press

June 19 1865: Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that all remaining enslaved people in Texas were free — an event now celebrated nationwide as Juneteenth. […]

BARONE: On Juneteenth, remember Americans who put slavery on the path to extinction

June 24, 2021 Michael Barone

Last week, the Senate unanimously passed a bill declaring Juneteenth a national holiday, commemorating June 19, 1865, when a Union general informed the last enslaved people in Texas that, thanks to the 13th Amendment, they […]

Biden to sign bill making ‘Juneteenth’ a federal holiday

June 17, 2021 Kevin Freking, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Joe Biden is set to sign legislation into law Thursday to make ‘Juneteenth,’ or June 19, the 12th federal holiday. The House voted 415-14 on Wednesday to send the bill to […]

3 dead, 6 wounded in Charlotte shooting

June 22, 2020 The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE — Three people were killed and six others were wounded early Monday when multiple people fired into a crowd at an impromptu celebration in North Carolina, police said. Five others were hit by vehicles. […]

2 dead, 7 wounded in shooting at North Carolina block party

June 22, 2020 The Associated Press

CHARLOTTE — Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in an early Monday shooting in North Carolina’s largest city, police said, while five others were hit by vehicles. The shooting happened at an […]

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Protesters rip down two confederate statues from Capitol monument

June 20, 2020 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — On Friday night in Raleigh, protesters surrounded a monument dedicated to dead Confederate soldiers and over the course of several hours pulled down two of the statues mounted on it. One of the […]