Growing up in Chicago Deborah Evans – founder of Juneteenth Nevada – didn’t know about the holiday despite living about 10 ...

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

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Pentagon to go light on commemorating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery.

Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

Here's what to know about how Costco, Walmart, Target, Starbucks, McDonald's and other big name companies are operating on ...

You can visit any of the country's National Parks with no entrance fee on June 19.

Nik Rajkovic / [email protected] Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II proclaimed June 19 as ...

Juneteenth is a fine thing. First and foremost, the end of slavery is something we all should commemorate and remember.

Federal employees will have a paid day off on June 19, banks and government offices will be closed, and trash collection will be unavailable, but most private businesses will remain open and COTA ...