One hundred sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is ...

Juneteenth celebrations have kicked off in Odessa and Midland and will continue through Sunday, June 22nd. June 19 marks the ...

It may be that trying to undo a national holiday, particularly one as publicly embraced as Juneteenth, would be a harder sell ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

In Juneteenth’s fifth year as a federal holiday, commemorations of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States continue to evolve in the Baltimore area and beyond.

A hot Thursday is ahead with highs in the mid-90s, but it the heat index will crank up "feels-like" temperatures to the triple digits.

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

The New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq are closed today, June 19, as are U.S. bond markets. Trading will resume on the morning of June 20 and follow normal hours of operation. Are post offices ...

JEFFERSONVILLE – Juneteenth is one of the newest federal holidays celebrated in the United States. It commemorates the day ...