News

The Juneteenth 2025 celebration vibe has started off across the United States. Here's more about the federal holiday and why ...
The Blacks in Technology of Southwest Virginia put together a Juneteenth Celebration: A Day of Independence and Unity at the ...
Juneteenth celebrations in Grand Rapids kicked off Thursday, June 19, in southeast Grand Rapids with a parade along Eastern ...
It’s Juneteenth, and celebrations are underway across Southern Colorado. On June 19 in 1865, some of the last slaves finally learned about the Emancipation Proclamation.
But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...
Five years ago, the nation recognized the first Juneteenth. It marks the day in 1965 when Union soldiers went to Galveston, ...
Juneteenth, a fairly new federal holiday, remembers June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally notified that they were freed through the Emancipation Proclamation, issued over two ...
"Since this is a national holiday, it's time for us to bring something bigger to the Central Valley," said Landon Green, The Freedom Groups. "This Juneteenth is the largest African American festival ...
Juneteenth brought Salt Lake City residents together on Thursday to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that over 250,000 remaining enslaved people in Texas were ...
Juneteenth has long been celebrated by the African American community. The holiday dates back to June 19, 1865, marking the day the last remaining enslaved people in Texas found out they were free.
Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery ...