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

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

Like most federal holidays, expect your local banks and credit unions to be closed in observance of Juneteenth. Postal ...

Google marked Juneteenth Thursday with a Google Doodle crafted to represent both African American heritage and culture, and ...

Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in ...

While relatively new on the national stage, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated in African American communities for ...

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

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

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

Juneteenth is a significant day for African Americans, especially in Texas, even before it became a federal holiday. There's a lot of work that goes into getting a holiday federally observed, and much ...

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President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September of 1862, declaring that slaves would be freed in ...