The Justice Department released an extensive report looking into one of the most destructive racial massacres in U.S. history ...

Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon ...

They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’ together, and has been celebrated every year by African-American people to ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

A documentary called "Echoes of Remembrance" was the highlight of the annual Cross-Cultural Martin Luther King Holiday ...

Are banks open on Juneteenth in 2024? That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The answer is no ...

"This was a massacre of innocent Black inhabitants by ... "To make matters worse, he has chosen Juneteenth, a day of our emancipation. This is ridiculous and yet another slap in the face to ...

President Trump had planned to hold his campaign rally on Juneteenth but postponed it by a day following local protests. "It's an opportunity to leverage the history of Greenwood and the massacre ...

Laughter, music, food and learning are all on the table for the upcoming Juneteenth events around Minneapolis. Juneteenth celebrates the day when more than 250,000 slaves were freed on June 19, 1865, ...