The Houston Juneteenth Urban Takeover returns for its fourth year with new parties and after-hours events, starting June 20. Here's what you need to know about the celebrations. How it started ...

The Juneteenth Culture Fest will take place across two Houston locations this year. The event begins June 13 at Miller Outdoor Theatre with live performances celebrating gospel, blues, R&B, neo ...

Today is Juneteenth, a celebration that began in Texas but has spread across the country as a celebration of black culture. It is the coolest national holiday, for five reasons: 5.

PEARLAND, Texas – Pearland and Brazoria County marked a historic milestone Thursday evening with their first-ever Juneteenth Gala, celebrating freedom and inclusion at the Pearland Recreational ...

HOUSTON (KIAH) — For the first Juneteenth since her passing, Houstonians will gather to honor the late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee—the driving force behind making Juneteenth a national ...

President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.

Juneteenth celebrations took place across the U.S., commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their freedom. While long honored by Black Americans, the holiday ...

Big celebrations are here in Galveston, the birthplace of Juneteenth, when the last of the slaves received news about the Emancipation Proclamation, two years after it was signed by President ...

Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the United States, first began in Galveston, and as such, the area around Houston is home to some of the biggest and most lavish ...

Inside the history of Juneteenth as Opal's Walk for Freedom takes place President Trump appeared to mark Juneteenth on Thursday with a Truth Social post arguing the United States has "too many non ...

Juneteenth commemorates the freeing of the final group of slaves under the Emancipation Proclamation. Though President Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation in 1863, it took an additional two ...