The next federal holiday is coming up this week. Juneteenth commemorates the day the news of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation reached the South — almost three years after Lincoln signed the ...

Juneteenth is often referred to as the nation's "Second Independence Day," and communities nationwide and in Oklahoma celebrate with block parties, educational events and parades. The federal holiday ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

Americans will celebrate Juneteenth on Thursday, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, is a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. We invited the hosts and organizers behind ...

The University of Michigan has selected its next president. Kent Syverud, the current chancellor of Syracuse University, will be officially appointed as Michigan’s 16th president. Report: Syracuse ...

Now that the Juneteenth barbecues are over and Black Americans are done with their celebrating, we have time to respond to President Donald Trump’s reaction to the holiday. And boy, do folks online ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” But on ...