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Juneteenth
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Father’s Day on Sunday, and the Juneteenth holiday this Monday, adds up to a three-day weekend in the territory. And making it more festive is the 2023 graduation season over the last two weeks with Tafuna High School’s commencement excise today — the last in line of the...
Medford, MA — The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, sermons and shared meals, mostly held at Black churches, the safest places to have such celebrations.
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Graduation celebrations 2022, Father’s Day on Sunday, and the Juneteenth holiday to be observed on Monday, June 20 adds up to a festive three-day weekend in the territory.
Through a June 13 memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Mauga declared that Juneteenth Independence Day,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Hours after US President Joe Biden signed into law yesterday at the White House in the nation’s capitol, federal legislation making June 19th — or Juneteenth — a federal holiday, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga joined in declaring it a holiday for American Samoa...