Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week. Although Juneteenth celebrations were documented as early as 1866, it wasn't officially recognized ...

While the Trump administration has rolled back federal support for DEI initiatives, there is no public plan to change the status of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The fifth year since Juneteenth was ...

While the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, people who were enslaved in Confederate states could not exercise their freedoms, according to the National Museum ...