Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of ...

Although Juneteenth is generally seen as the end of slavery in the U.S., the reality is actually more complicated.

Juneteenth celebrations took place across the U.S., commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned ...

Letter writers discuss history of Juneteenth, Holocaust exhibit in Virginia Beach and gubernatorial candidate Abigail ...

For more than 150 years, June 19 has been a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Communities across the ...

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery. See what President Trump said about it and what the holiday's flag means.

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...

The case led to the end of slavery in Massachusetts. About a decade later no one reported to the census that they owned slaves. Shepperson said she has something in common with Freeman.

Genealogists have located a direct descendant of Elizabeth Freeman, a formerly enslaved woman whose 1781 freedom lawsuit helped abolish slavery in Massachusetts.