Each year on the fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, Americans celebrate this historic event. Conflict between the colonies and England was already a year old when the colonies ...
Hidalgo rang a bell and urged the small army to fight for Mexico’s freedom. On the eve of Mexican Independence Day, the republic's president recites a similar version of Hidalgo’s “el Grito ...
For Haitian Americans (like yours truly), Jan. 1 was a day to celebrate independence, and Charlotte’s small, but mighty, Haitian community offers some ways to join in on the observance.