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After significant funding cuts jeopardized the future of the Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival (SCJF), organizers say the event is moving forward this year with a new location, thanks to community support. Juneteenth is a national holiday – held on June 19 – that commemorates the official emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the U.S. For the past four years, it's been celebrated in Colorado Springs with a festival held at America the Beautiful Park. The event is hosted by OneBodyEnt., a local nonprofit dedicated to serving youth and adults by helping prevent criminal offenses and re-offenses. But after the event's...

I was reading over the Executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and saw this section: Sec. 5. Additional Action. The Secretary of Interior may solicit public and intergovernmental input regarding additional patriots to honor, particularly in light of America’s semiquincentennial celebration, and shall recommend action to me, through the Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. So my question is...what else can we recommend to be renamed? I think we've become so used to having the left rename things with little to no blowback that we think it's not important. But it is. Remember...

The process began when celebration of Washington’s Birthday moved to the third Monday in February. Around the same time, many states dropped their February celebration of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Local governments have paired or replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day. The most recent calendar change is the addition of Juneteenth

Public transactions on the Venmo page of Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, show payments on Juneteenth spread across four of the last six years. The daughter of a well-known Congresswoman seemingly accepted “reparation” payments from her white friends for years, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon. Public transactions on the Venmo page of Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, show payments on Juneteenth spread across four of the last six years. Captions to the currency exchange include “reparations” and “Happy Juneteenth. It’s unclear how much money was sent as “reparations.”...

Two people were killed, and fourteen were injured in the Juneteenth festival shooting, per police reports by the Round Rock Police Department.

OAKLAND, Calif. - A Juneteenth celebration at Lake Merritt in Oakland took a dramatic turn as gunshots rang out, leaving 15 people injured.

Lt. Col. Allen B. West (USA, Ret.) discusses the rich history of Juneteenth and why it is relevant to Republican history and all history!

On Tuesday's episode of "Greg Kelly Reports" Greg questioned the meaning of Juneteenth, talked about former President Donald Trump being targeted over Juneteenth, explained how President Obama went years without acknowledging Juneteenth, and more on NEWSMAX.

GREAT! 0:56 VIDEO AT LINK............

>>Juneteenth as a federal and now state holiday is humorous to say the least. White people having a paid day off on Juneteenth is not only the antithesis of the entire day, it represents a sinister cycle of America reluctantly giving Black Americans what we are owed, and only if white America can benefit from it. We still struggle with housing, education, transportation and health because of the generational ignorance to racism. To pay white people on Juneteenth is a slap in the face to every Black American and the ancestors we come from. If these systems were so invested...

Today marks the third Juneteenth America has officially celebrated as a federal holiday. The country would be a whole lot better without it. We already have a black holiday with Martin Luther King Day. We didn’t need another one, especially one that its proponents wanted to weaponize to browbeat America into giving reparations. Juneteenth enshrines the false idea that blacks are the protagonists of American history while whites are its villains. When this was first made a holiday, I thought it might one day supplant Independence Day in importance. It was a year after George Floyd. America appeared well on...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. People who never gave the June 19 holiday more than a passing thought may be asking themselves, is there a “right” way to celebrate Juneteenth? For beginners and those brushing up on history, here are some answers: Is Juneteenth a solemn day of remembrance or more of a party? It just depends on what you want. Juneteenth festivities are rooted in cookouts and barbecues. The important thing is to make people feel they have options on how to observe the occasion, said Dr. David Anderson,...

I Left That Other Site (GOP/USA) 15 years ago today. :-) And I'm glad I did.

This Wednesday, America will celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday for the fourth time. Yet the holiday, born out of bipartisanship, is becoming more divisive each year. The Left has co-opted Juneteenth to push for radical racial policies such as reparations and exclude most Americans from its celebration. As a result, many conservatives now oppose the federal holiday.But in the eyes of this Texas historian, it’s a mistake to abandon a unifying national holiday to the manipulations of the Left. We should instead do what conservatives are best at: Get back to the roots.Until the past four years, Juneteenth was...

The governments of our adversaries, namely China, Russia, and Iran, are positively giddy about the looting and destruction that has swept the nation in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The state-run media outlets in these countries and others have been focusing on our government’s inability to establish control over the rioters. They’ve been replaying footage of Floyd’s death and showing video of the violence and the devastation in our cities. For the Chinese, in particular, the riots have presented an unexpected opportunity to hit back at America for our support of the anti-Chinese riots in Hong Kong and for...

Well, don’t mind me, but, why “Juneteenth?” It’s akin to everything that Biden has done domestically to buy his way to a second term. (Biden? Second Term? Really?) Very few Americans -- black, white, or indifferent -- have a clue what the mid-June holiday is. Its off-putting, cutesy title and wandering appearance in June (on a Wednesday, right?) doesn’t really clarify the point of it. It is a safe bet that if CNN wandered around the streets of D.C., or anywhere, asking folks what event in ‘history’ Juneteenth respects, the empty stares and open mouths would astound. Tomorrow’s ‘holiday,’ we...

Two people died and at least six others — including two children — were injured during a shooting at a Juneteenth festival in Texas Saturday night, officials said. A fight between two groups broke out at around 10:50 p.m. during the Round Rock Juneteenth Celebration. “During that altercation, someone produced a gun and began to fire,” Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said. “Multiple victims were hit.” Two people, who police said were not part of the altercation, were pronounced dead at the scene. “We do not have a suspect in custody,” Banks added, saying the suspects fled the area...

AKRON, Ohio (WJW) – Akron residents and even some elected officials are unhappy after Mayor Shammas Malik made the difficult decision to cancel all events on city property this weekend. A move, he said, to prevent any potential violent acts. The decision to cancel was primed by a letter signed by eight Akron City Council members expressing grave concern for Juneteenth celebrations. “I can only imagine the frustration of the organizers,” Mayor Malik said. “But when I get a letter like what I received, I have to take that seriously.” In total, 11 weekend events were canceled. The top reason...

President Biden appeared to freeze during Juneteenth celebrations at the White House, and began slurring his words when speaking to the crowd

Critics are slamming Disney as “woke” and “anti-white” over an episode of a kids show that features a song covering the history of slavery in the US and the need for “reparations.” The backlash stemmed from a Juneteenth episode of “The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,” a reboot of the popular early aughts cartoon that airs on Disney’s streaming service Disney+. A clip from the episode that’s been making the rounds on social media shows characters singing a tune about how America has “still not atoned for” slavery and systemic racism. “Slaves built this country and we the descendants...