Most national banks, federal offices and the United States Postal Service were closed in honor of Juneteenth, which commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, when the last Black slaves of the ...

Because June 19 falls on a Saturday this year, most federal employees will observe the holiday on Friday, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced in a tweet.

Private companies are not forced to close on federal holidays like Juneteenth, which commemorates events of June 19, 1865, when the last Black people enslaved by the Confederacy were ordered free.

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free.

Oklahoma State Senator Nikki Nice advocates for recognizing Juneteenth as a state holiday, citing Oklahoma's historic ties.

Having written a column earlier this week about the ambivalent status of the federal Juneteenth holiday in the wake of the second Trump administration’s assault on race-conscious anti ...

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, although it is not universally observed. Oklahoma County observes it, ...

Trump called for the number of holidays to change in a post on Truth Social on Juneteenth, June 19, which celebrates the day when, in 1865, the last enslaved people in the United States learned ...

The Republican president's silence was a sharp contrast from his prior acknowledgement of the holiday. Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States by commemorating June 19, 1865 ...

In June 2020, Trump had planned a rally on June 19 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but he said he decided to reschedule it “out of respect for this holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and ...

And this was before it became a federal holiday in 2021 following the murder of George Floyd. But now, folks online feel like Trump has changed his tune.