Juneteenth has been celebrated in Reno for the past 37 years despite not becoming a federal holiday until 2021 and a state ...

Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ...

America's Second Independence Day is coming soon. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is displaying a 161-year-old text that paved the way for the abolition of ...

The date is becoming more widely known due to the efforts of Black historians who have been sharing the date's importance ...

Americans are "not alarmed enough" by President Donald Trump's federalization of the National Guard to secure Los Angeles, ...

Order Number Three is the document Union General Gordon Granger brought to Galveston on June 19, 1865, which became known as ...

Historic bricks in Houston's Freedmen's Town— a community founded by formerly enslaved people after emancipation—were damaged ...

Pedestrian killed on I-70 A person died Monday after being struck by a semi truck after exiting an ambulance in downstate ...

Government of the United States.” The president has claimed in the first paragraph that such a rebellion exists, and so directs the secretary of defense to mobilize at least 2,000 National Guard ...

Though some cities have canceled their Juneteenth celebrations, the greater-Savannah area is continuing this celebration of ...

Juneteenth, a federal holiday marking the end of slavery in the U.S., will be celebrated June 19, 2025. Here's what to know.