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.

Community leaders and residents of Bakersfield express their thoughts and feelings behind the holiday. Celebrating in style ...

At the Juneteenth Cookout, families, adults and teenagers gathered together to celebrate the day commemorating the end of ...

Juneteenth, short for “June Nineteenth” and also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day, commemorates the moment in 1865 ...

The artwork of Louis B. Burroughs Jr., a prolific African-American artist who lives in Orange, was the focus of the opening event of the village’s inaugural Juneteenth celebration Thursday (June 19) ...

The festival has plenty of events taking place outdoors, and with Saturday, June 21 being a First Alert Weather Day, Bowen ...

ROME, N.Y.--On Friday, the Rome branch of the NAACP held a free Juneteenth family movie night at Franklyn Field. The movie ...

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. For the last four years, Alabama’s current Republican governor, Kay Ivey, used her executive powers to designate Juneteenth as a state holiday. The ...

Despite heavy rain and a last minute location change, Unalaska held its first-ever Juneteenth event. More than 50 community ...

Despite extreme heat, hundreds of people braved the weather to celebrate Juneteenth in Evanston at the annual parade.