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Watch any sporting event live or on television, and you’re guaranteed to be treated to the spectacle of at least one athlete celebrating. Football players develop elaborate dances in the endzone ...

There are over 150 different cultural observances in 2024. While organizations tend to recognize the traditions of the dominant culture, less attention is generally given to the holidays and ...

It’s sort of shocking how several terrible things can happen at once. You can feel grief from the actual pandemic and have car trouble, too. You might hear the latest coronavirus figures on TV, only ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

After 40 years of community building, Celebrate Fairfax’s annual festival has ended, but residents can still look forward to community events in the future. Nonprofit organization Celebrate Fairfax ...

Thursday is a leap day, the rare date of February 29 that's added to the calendar nearly every four years. That means the roughly 5 million people worldwide born on that day — aka "leaplings" — will ...

Christmas is literally “the mass for Christ”, the day on which Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. The western date for Jesus’ birth is quite arbitrary. It was chosen by Pope Leo I, bishop of ...

How do Native Americans make peace with a national holiday that romanticizes the 1621 encounter between their ancestors and English settlers, and erases the deadly conflicts that followed? Dennis ...