Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth is a federal holiday also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day. It's celebrated on June 19 to commemorate the ...

To close out Juneteenth weekend, the Pan-African Connection Bookstore and Resource Center will host a second screening of the ...

Juneteenth was officially recognized as a federal holiday by President Joe Biden in 2021. Here's why it's celebrated.

Juneteenth has become one of the most important and symbolic celebrations in African American history in the United States.

Celebrations around the U.S. are marking Thursday as Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day in 1865 when Union soldiers ...

Juneteenth marks the moment Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas in 1865. The Standard's Sean Saldana reports on how the city ...

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As towns and cities across the United States today celebrate the anniversary of the end of slavery on Juneteenth, see how ...

Edith Edmunds, who is 99 years old, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's ...

shares the ties between Juneteenth and soul food. Hurricane Erick is expected to reach maximum strength soon. Here's which ...