TROY — Multiple Troy students were among the winners of Oakland County’s first Juneteenth Art & Essay Contest.

In 2013, the US Postal Service commissioned Anderson to design the commemorative stamp for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anderson was only the second African American designer ...

Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963. Description ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Billionaire developer and Palm Beach resident Ken Griffin's most recent purchases include rare copies of the Emancipation ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

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Juneteenth is a commemoration of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

T-shirts celebrating Juneteenth were on display at the annual Juneteenth festival at Roger Williams Park on Sunday, June 22, 2025 (WJAR).

The event celebrated the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the freedom of enslaved people, two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Juneteenth marks the day, June 19, 1865, that news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached the last remaining slaves in Texas. Due to limited communication technology of that time, and ...