North Carolina’s Senate Judiciary Committee spent Juneteenth advancing a bill to gut the state’s diversity, equity and ...

On Juneteenth, the federal holiday celebrating the moment when the last enslaved people received word of the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth, which falls on the same day every year, is a federal holiday. But not all government employees get a day off.

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

Rain and strong to severe storms in North Carolina may drop some trees and bring frequent lightning to Juneteenth cookouts ...

A severe thunderstorm watch in in effect along with severe thunderstorm warnings on this Thursday, June 19. Please plan on ...

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is considered the longest African American holiday.

North Carolina legislators have finalized a bill that would eliminate an interim greenhouse gas reduction mandate set in a ...

Info: Celebrate Juneteenth at the Park with Historian Darrell Stover and a lineup of live performances, including ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Juneteenth – a federal holiday that’s known as the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ...

On June 19, 1865, federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to proclaim the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas. 160 ...

Juneteenth commemorates when the last enslaved Black people in the country were finally told they were free. What's closed?