Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, when President Joe Biden signed it into law. The bill passed with near ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, but organizers of this year’s celebration on the Greenville Town Common are feting local achievements during Saturday’s celebration.

A Juneteenth celebration in Prospect Park in New York City in 2022. Michael Nagle/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images Corey D ...

The red, black, and green African Liberation Flag, also known as the Pan-African flag, has historically been displayed at ...

Late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was the driving force in establishing Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when slaves in Galveston learned they were free, as a federal holiday.

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...