Juneteenth has been commemorated as a federally recognized holiday since 2021, providing millions of Americans with a paid day off to honor the end of slavery. As a federal holiday, many businesses ...

June 19 (UPI) --Juneteenth holiday events across the nation celebrate and memorialize June 19 in 1865, when 250,000 slaves in Texas were granted their freedom following the Civil War. President Joe ...

PHILADELPHIA -- The Juneteenth holiday recognizes the first day of freedom for enslaved Africans in Texas and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States as a whole. The Emancipation ...

Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday and technically Juneteenth National Independence Day, strikes us as a fine idea that all Americans can and should get behind. It’s been a federal holiday only ...

IT’S 540 IN PROJECT COMMUNITY, HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROUD LEGACY OF BLACK AMERICANS THROUGHOUT THE NATION. JUNETEENTH KICKS OFF ITS ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF FREEDOM AND AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE ...

(The Conversation) – The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, ...

The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from ...

People hold a rally to celebrate Juneteenth commemoration in Inglewood, Calif., on Sunday, June 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (Damian Dovarganes, Copyright ...

The National Park Service is eliminating free park entry for Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, while adding ...