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 ...

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

More than three years after a plan for a National Juneteenth Museum was hatched, developers have secured land in Fort Worth.

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

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.

His 1845 autobiography is still taught in U.S. schools today. Lincoln, born Feb. 12, signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all enslaved people free in the Confederate states. “There was no ...

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

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has yet again renewed a disaster proclamation originally set forth in May 2021. This move persists to classify the situation as a disaster for numerous Texas counties ...

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 ...

How much snow fell in Texas, and is there really snow on Galveston's beaches? Here's what to know. Snowfall is expected to end around noon Tuesday, with total snow and ice accumulations around 2 ...

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 ...

2025 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Search This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four ...