With President Donald Trump's crusade against DEI and established cultural holidays, are federal holidays like Juneteenth prime for the chopping block? Federal agencies have been working to comply ...

More than three years after a plan for a National Juneteenth Museum was hatched, developers have secured land in Fort Worth.

With Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth” in attendance, the Fort Worth City Council unanimously approved a resolution ...

Dr. Jessica Johnson, an Ohio State University English professor, delivered a lecture at OSU Lima during Black History Month, ...

The Fort Worth City Council voted to demolish the Southside Community Center to build the National Juneteenth Museum.

The Air Force will not use official resources to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, in addition to other cultural ...

Opal Lee did not vote for President Donald Trump, but the 98-year-old civil rights icon says she is ready to work with him. In an open letter published Monday, Lee noted her successful fight to have ...

On June 17th, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law establishing June 19th as a federal holiday to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in ...

In 2021, Lee, who lives in Fort Worth, was in attendance when President Joe Biden signed legislation to make Juneteenth a national holiday. Mayor Mattie Parker congratulated Nettles, the city staf ...

Museum officials hope to have the grand opening in 2026, when Opal Lee, the grandmother of Juneteenth​, turns 100 years old.