Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew Research Center.

With President Donald Trump's crusade against DEI and established cultural holidays, are federal holidays like Juneteenth prime for the chopping block? Federal agencies have been working to comply ...

While Black History Month is commemorated in February, celebrating and learning more about the history doesn't have to stop ...

This article invites you to explore Freedmen’s Town in Houston through a virtual adventure. It highlights the area’s rich ...

Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced the ending of slavery in Texas through the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation. Galveston is decimated by a hurricane that killed up to ...

New defense secretary Pete Hegseth has canceled all cultural awareness months in the Department of Defense, including Black ...

Specifically, Juneteenth celebrates the day the news of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was made effective in 1863, made it to Galveston Bay in Texas June 19, 1865. Juneteenth was made a ...

celebrating the day in 1865 that the last enslaved African Americans were set free in Galveston, Texas. That came two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ...

Florida does recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, the day commemorating the date in Galveston, Texas ... after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, although Juneteenth ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 that Gordon Granger, a general in the Union Army, led thousands of Union troops into Galveston, Texas, to enforce Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ordering the end ...