The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

As for state and local governments, Juneteenth is an occasion, like other holidays, to bring constituents together to acknowledge and celebrate, in this case, a common history. The holiday ...

Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when the last enslaved people in the Confederacy were freed in Texas. Learn about the ...

Tomorrow is Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating Black freedom in America. Here's how to celebrate, what will be open and closed on Thursday, June 19.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly six months after Joe Biden left the White House, Senate Republicans are still scrutinizing his ...

Joe Biden will attend a Juneteenth celebration at Galveston's historic Reedy Chapel AME Church, where emancipation was first ...

As June rears its hot and humid head in South Florida, make sure to pack plenty of sunscreen and water as you head outside Thursday for a day of dancing, eating delicious cuisines and honoring Black ...

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

GALVESTON, Texas – Former President Joe Biden will be in Galveston Thursday as a dignitary for a Juneteenth event. Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fullen confirmed to KPRC 2’s Bill Barajas that the ...

Former president Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in ...

Biden on Thursday will attend the annual Juneteenth service at the church, 2013 Broadway Avenue J, which is set to begin at 6 ...