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

This is the first year Juneteenth will be recognized as a state holiday in Vermont. As a federal holiday, many businesses and organizations will be closed for the observance of Juneteenth, but not all ...

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four ...

The Justice for All Juneteenth Jam starts at 4 p.m. and runs until 8 p.m. on Thursday, June 19, in downtown Grand Rapids.

Juneteenth celebrations are being held across Southeast Texas, but Thursday’s weather could include a scattering of afternoon ...

A local man on felony probation was arrested early Wednesday after he allegedly attacked his pregnant girlfriend and "put her ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through Galveston, Texas, with the message that enslaved people were free.

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops. The Civil War had ended on ...