The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

Juneteenth Tasting Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine. Celebrate the cuisine of the ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – As many in the community prepare to celebrate Juneteenth, a Minnesota historian is telling the story of a man buried in Rochester who is connected to the origins of the ...

Now that Juneteenth is a federal holiday, most county offices also will be closed, though it appears that which day varies.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, commemorates the day on June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced ...

Thursday marks the fourth year for recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday, and the community is already joining hands to celebrate the day of freedom.

Juneteenth – short for June Nineteenth – recognizes the day in 1865 when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...

Festivities will kick off with the annual Juneteenth parade at 9 a.m., featuring an array of floats, local dance teams and ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Juneteenth is just around the corner! Here are a few events happening in Philadelphia this week to celebrate this historic ...