After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in ...

Those states with no official provision for Juneteenth include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New ...

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® - Eta Xi Omega Chapter, has announced its annual Juneteenth Video Essay contest in ...

(AP) - It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

A Juneteenth mural in Galveston is located at the site of the issuance of General Order No. 3, which demanded “absolute equality” between enslaved Texans and former slave owners after the Emancipation ...

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 celebrations happened across Milwaukee on Thursday. The city is home to one of the country's longest-running Juneteenth celebrations. New this year, Juneteenth Day festivities will extend ...

Juneteenth is celebrated across the U.S. to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in Texas on June 19, 1865. Detroit business owners view Juneteenth as a celebration of both ...

But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No ...