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Utah's Juneteenth celebrations kick off Friday, with festivals and ceremonies this week and next. Why it matters: Juneteenth ...
For beginners and those brushing up on history, here are some answers: ...
While Salt Lake City officials gathered Tuesday for a celebration to raise the city’s new Juneteenth flag over City Hall, ...
In Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of ...
This weekend is PACKED with events across Utah for you, no matter where you are! Here's what's happening across the Beehive ...
Salt Lake City officials and leaders from the Black community gathered to mark Juneteenth and to raise the city's ...
Salt Lake Community College is turning history into action with music, spoken word, food, and Black-owned vendors. Website: ...
If you think Juneteenth shouldn’t be important in Utah, think again. In many ways, discrimination began about as early as possible in Utah’s community history. Green Flake, Hark Lay and Oscar ...
Four UT Arlington alumni are doing just that. James Lawrence, Aleksandar Milenkov, Tobin Ezekwesili and Richard Long are ...
Betty Sawyer has been organizing celebrations of Juneteenth in Utah for 35 years — and the event which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, remains important to “help build a ...
Emancipation and Juneteenth are particularly poignant in the history of enslavement in Utah. While the state often associates freedom with the Mormon pioneers, it has a lesser spoken-about history ...