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

The Trump administration is implementing an executive order that includes removing certain historical documents, portraits ...

For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history's darkest chapters with joy — such as parades or ...

Indianapolis celebrates Juneteenth while honoring local Black history and navigating political tensions around diversity.

Donald Trump intends to make the world—especially besieged Iranian civilians—wait a little longer to learn if he plans to ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that over 250,000 remaining enslaved people in Texas were ...