First created in 1997 by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation founder Ben Haith, the banner is in red, white and blue ...

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery. See what President Trump said about it and what the holiday's flag means.

Michigan will celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2025. Here's a look at what's open and closed on the federal holiday.

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...

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

Now in its 159th year of celebration, Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, commemorates the day some of the last enslaved people in Texas were freed. Union Army Major Gen. Gordon Granger ...

and Miss Juneteenth Texas, Madison Swain, on his “Freedom Walk Tour,” which highlights the sites where the orders of freedom were read. Higgins and Swain are both college students who won ...

Once the Emancipation Proclamation laid its roots in Texas, those freed from slavery declared the day of its arrival "Juneteenth" in homage to the date when it finally happened. Although the ...

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 ...

On June 19, African Americans throughout the United States will celebrate Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday. Although celebrated in Texas since 1865, President Joe Biden signed the holiday ...

Last week at a Juneteenth concert on the South Lawn of the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris said that on June 19, 1865, after Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, “The enslaved ...

“I went to a Juneteenth festival and learned that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, did not learn of their freedom until two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective,” she said.