June 19, 2025, marks the fifth consecutive year that Juneteenth is a federally recognized United States holiday.

The last enslaved people in America learned of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation 160 years ago. It took two ...

Just seven years after learning of their freedom, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans purchased land in 1872 to ...

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

Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery ...

June 19 has witnessed some of the most transformative events in world history, spanning social justice milestones, groundbreaking scientific achievements, ...

Galveston launches Juneteenth by, reenacting General Order No. 3, the order that let slaves aware of their freedom.

Former President Joe Biden celebrated Juneteenth on Thursday at a historic Black church in Texas, calling for Americans to ...

President Donald Trump will not commemorate Juneteenth, despite previously taking credit for the relatively new federal ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal ...

The former president asked that people vote and help others register to vote at the Emancipation Service at Reedy Chapel.

Texas Southern University and the Houston-based law firm, Roberts Markland, announced a new partnership. The partnership will conduct a study of the legal and economic impacts due ...