After decades of advocacy and cultural recognition, Juneteenth has finally been established as an official U.S. holiday. The ...

WASHINGTON - A bill that would add Juneteenth as a federal holiday is now heading to President Joe Biden's desk for signature after the House approved the measure Wednesday afternoon by a vote of ...

Juneteenth is observed on June 19. Here's what to know about the holiday's origins and how it became known as the nation's "second Independence Day." ...

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 — ...

The legislation to create Juneteenth as a federal holiday moved quickly this week; with Senate passage on Tuesday, then the House on Wednesday, getting President Joe Biden's signature Thursday, and a ...

Americans will no longer get free admission to the country's national parks in observance of MLK Jr. Day and Juneteenth, but ...

NPS will no longer offer free admission on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, but will waive admission costs on ...

The National Park Service will offer free admission on Trump's birthday next year, but will eliminate the benefit for Martin ...