Houston Texans Legend Cecil Shorts III recently visited Emancipation Park, the oldest park in Texas, to learn more about Juneteenth and the role it has played in the life of African Americans.

Check out the Tulsa Juneteenth Festival website for more information. Houston has its own special Juneteenth history. In 1872 four residents who were all formerly enslaved (Rev. Jack Yates ...

Smith, the author of the bestseller "How the Word Is Passed," is returning to Houston next week, a city that embraced his ...

The "grandmother" of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, was honored with a special award in Houston on Thursday. Lee received the Kay Bailey Hutchison Women of Texas History Award at a luncheon in the Galleria ...

Once located on far south Main outside Houston, the Diamond L was a legendary ... at the Nia Cultural Center in Galveston, the home of Juneteenth. From there the exhibit will travel to the ...

To get around one such instance, for example, Black community leaders in Houston in 1872 purchased a plot of land intended specifically for Juneteenth celebrations, NPR notes. The area is still ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The "grandmother" of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, was honored with a special award in Houston on Thursday. Lee received the Kay Bailey Hutchison Women of Texas History Award at a ...