The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they ...

Juneteenth — the federal holiday codified in 2021 that commemorates the day that the last African American slaves were told they had been freed — falls on Wednesday, June 19, but not every ...

Las Vegas Valley residents began Juneteenth celebrations Saturday with festivals, music and education on the newest federal holiday. Juneteenth remembers June 19, 1865, when a Union general told ...