A flag flies on a float during the 45th annual Juneteenth National Independence Day celebrations in Galveston, Texas, on June 15, 2024. (Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images) June 19 marks Juneteenth ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday ...

Juneteenth is a paid holiday for state employees in Texas, New York, Virginia, Washington, and now Nevada as well. Hundreds of companies give workers the day off.

Liberation Station, the first Black-owned children’s bookstore in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, will be returning to a ...

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, although it is not universally observed. Oklahoma County observes it, ...

Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn't well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson ...

Juneteenth—the annual observance celebrating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865—is a holiday that many Americans haven’t heard of until recently. That has caused some to wonder ...

Juneteenth marks the day -- June 19, 1865, when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free -- two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and two ...

Group chair expressed confusion over why Human Rights and Equity Commission wasn’t involved in discussion around Facebook ...

Tulsa Police have arrested a third person in connection to the deadly Juneteenth shooting that happened last month that left ...

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed the ...