The city held its fifth annual Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 14, at Rainbow Lagoon Park, with Lalah Hathaway, a five-time Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter, headlining a day filled ...

The Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated amongst Black communities for over one-and-a-half centuries. The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that the end of slavery was announced in ...

The Champaign Public Library’s Douglass Branch is hosting its 18th annual Juneteenth Emancipation Celebration on June 14.  The event will take place from 12 to 3 p.m. and have activities like outdoor ...

The community is invited to come together for a day of freedom, culture, and celebration at the annual Juneteenth Celebration ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...

Even though Juneteenth may not be celebrated as widely this year, it's encouraging to see that Houston, which plays  an ...

Juneteenth honors the historical milestone of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that ...

In Galveston, Menard park was buzzing with food, live music and vendors at the 2025 Galveston Island Juneteenth Festival and ...

Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas with news of freedom from slavery, nearly two years after President Lincoln emancipated African slaves. More than 250,000 African ...

A festival celebrating the end of slavery in the United States will kick off its seventh year in Humboldt County this week.