With flags, ceremonies, parades and pomp, celebrations across the United States marked the day the promise of freedom finally ...

Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, attracting participants who said current events strengthened ...

Juneteenth celebrates the day in 1865 that enslaved African Americans, isolated in Texas, learned they had been freed. Some ...

Juneteenth has long been celebrated by the African American community. The holiday dates back to June 19, 1865, marking the day the last remaining enslaved people in Texas found out they were free.

Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, is being celebrated across the country this week with parades, cookouts, and educational ...

But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...

The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...

On this day 160 years ago, 2,000 troops marched to Galveston, Texas, and told the last group of enslaved people they were ...