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By Thomas Cathey | Special To The OBSERVER Nicole Mitchell, left, and Jamil Mitchell dance at a photo booth during the Sacramento Juneteenth Inc. Festival

On this Juneteenth, we are taking a closer look at California's connection to this federal holiday. Contrary to what most of us learned in school, California has a conflicted history of slavery and is now trying to right a wrong.

Juneteenth commemorations are kicking off in Sacramento on Friday, beginning a weekend-long celebration of the national holiday on Monday.

Juneteenth commemorates the day Texas slaves learned of their emancipation in 1865, and became a federal holiday in 2021.

Brenda Matthews’ story is a truth-seeking quest to right the wrongs perpetrated by a government hell-bent on doing ‘as they saw fit’ when it came to Aboriginal peoples, writes Sandra Phillips.

The womans face is in profile, her eyes looking into the distance – or the past, or the future. This is a quiet woman, a thoughtful one; possibly o

Monday, June 19, is Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and there are many events happening this weekend in Northern California leading up to the holiday.

AARP Hawaiʻi has added Grant Chun, former Maui County managing director and executive director of Hale Mahaolu, to its Executive Council.

The state's battle against spongy moths stretches back nearly 50 years. The WSDA program is one of their greatest success stories, but the fight doesn’t end—if they stop trapping, it means they’ve likely taken root in our state.

Todd Alexander’s laugh-out-loud Over the Hill & Up the Wall leads our wrap of reviews of new fiction and non-fiction books.