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The United States Postal Service (USPS) will be closed on Juneteenth, meaning no mail will be delivered. However, FedEx ...
Connecticut banks and credit unions are "not obligated to close" on legal holidays, including Juneteenth, and they can chose ...
Join the West Hartford community on June 14th to celebrate the 5th Annual CommUNITY Juneteenth Celebration located at West ...
Juneteenth is more than just a day off from work—it's a time to remember the struggles and triumphs of African Americans ...
Across Connecticut, communities celebrated the Juneteenth holiday. Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday. Federal ...
While some states have acknowledged Juneteenth in symbolic ways or through commemorative events, others have chosen to mark ...
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Connecticut marks Juneteenth
The holiday marks June 19, 1865, when Union Army Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that ...
President Joe Biden made Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S., a federal holiday in ...
Milan Campbell proudly holds up a Juneteenth flag during Stamford's Juneteenth celebration at the Stamford Government Center ...
Several cities, towns, and local organizations are hosting Juneteenth celebration events across Connecticut this year.
A group of activists seeking prison reform chose Juneteenth to speak out about what they called the inhumane treatment people endure while incarcerated by the Connecticut Department of Correction.