The former president joins Galveston’s Juneteenth celebration at Reedy Chapel, honoring the site’s role in Emancipation ...

The event will be held at the Reedy Chapel AME Church, one of the locations where an order announcing the end of slavery in ...

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The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in ...

Biden signed a bill into law in 2021 making Juneteenth a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.