For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

The next federal holiday is coming up this week. Juneteenth commemorates the day the news of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reached the South — almost three years after Lincoln signed the ...

Now that the Juneteenth barbecues are over and Black Americans are done with their celebrating, we have time to respond to President Donald Trump’s reaction to the holiday. And boy, do folks online ...

The 18th and Vine float at the 13th annual Juneteenth Heritage Parade in 2024. Juneteenth, the national holiday commemorating the end of slavery, first touched down in Kansas City in 1980, according ...

President Trump announced changes that will affect two federal holidays in 2026. What they mean, what you need to know in ...

Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the holiday honoring the life and birthday of the American civil rights leader, is this month.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “very famous.” ...

Juneteenth, short for June 19th, commemorates the day the last remaining enslaved people in the U.S. — in Galveston, Texas — received word that the Civil War had ended and they had been liberated by ...

Juneteenth is Thursday, June 19. Americans will celebrate the day 170 years ago when about a quarter billion of the last enslaved Black people in the country were finally told they were free.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, is a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. We invited the hosts and organizers behind ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ...