While they tend to be solitary creatures, every summer, hundreds of alligators come together in the Okefenokee Swamp. Why is ...

On Thursday’s episode of the “Politically Georgia” podcast, Atlanta Journal-Constitution journalists Tia Mitchell and Patricia Murphy discussed Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery ...

Miss Juneteenth Georgia Nirvana Harrison (in red sash) and other court members of the Royal National Juneteenth Pageant on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Juneteenth People's Parade ...

People march in the Lehigh Valley Juneteenth Parade on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Easton.

President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.

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As midnight approached on the eve of Juneteenth, the obelisk glorifying the Lost Cause was laid on its side and slid to a waiting truck in Decatur, Georgia.

President Donald Trump said the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays," but he hasn't shied away from other holiday proclamations. In an apparent critique of Juneteenth, Trump said in a June 19 ...

President Joe Biden, who signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act in 2021, a law that made Juneteenth a federal holiday, celebrated at a Black church in Galveston, Texas, this year.

Trump says 'too many non-working holidays' Trump's post on Juneteenth criticized the number of federal holidays, which most federal workers have as paid holidays. There are 12 federal holidays in ...