Biden's act of making Juneteenth a federal holiday marked the first federal holiday established since Ronald Reagan made Martin Luther King Jr Day a holiday in 1983. During a Juneteenth commemoration ...

Americans across the country celebrated the federal holiday commemorating the day the last group of enslaved African Americans were informed they were free. June 19, dubbed Juneteenth, reflects on a ...

Last year, the U.S. government finally caught up with Black people who have been commemorating the end of slavery in the United States for generations with a day called “Juneteenth.” President Joe ...

Another Juneteenth has come and gone, except in Galveston. Former President Joe Biden's visit to the island last Thursday and the ballooning number of celebrations worldwide (Mexico, Ghana, Nigeria) ...

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 — ...

In the place where Juneteenth was born, people are telling the story of the holiday’s origins in a unique and visual way. “Maya Angelou has a great quote, ‘history despite its wrenching pain cannot be ...

ELIZABETHTOWN — North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association President Jacqueline Madison discussed the history of Juneteenth and the importance of the North Country as a route for slaves ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Samuel Collins III wears many hats around Galveston, Texas. Native to the area, memory keeper and mentor, he has a fire within to preserve the stories of Juneteenth. "There's a ...