WASHINGTON (DC News) — Juneteenth is a time for family, friends and community to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. Celebrated every year on June 19, the holiday is sometimes ...

Juneteenth is a national holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States, celebrated every year on June 19. The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, when news of liberation reached 250,000 ...

On Wednesday, June 19, the United States will observe Juneteenth. A little history: In 1865, a Union general arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform enslaved African Americans that they were free and ...

Juneteenth is being marked across the area today with celebrations, including a Freedom Walk in D.C. Singing “We Shall Overcome,” several hundred people walked up M Street Southeast across the 11th ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people are expected to walk across the 11th Street Bridge on Juneteenth to commemorate the 1852 Freedom Walk across the Anacostia River. Melani N. Douglass is one of the ...

A group of around 30 people danced on the hot asphalt of the Anacostia Community Museum parking lot Wednesday afternoon, defying the near-90-degree temperature, as the jazz band DuPont Brass performed ...

The Trump administration is reshaping when Americans can enter national parks for free – adding President Donald Trump’s ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - In observance of Juneteenth, the National Civil Rights Museum (NCRM) is offering free admission Wednesday. The public is welcome to tour museum between 9 a.m.-6 p.m. on a first-come, ...

WASHINGTON -- A shooting near an unpermitted concert Sunday evening left a 15-year-old boy dead and several others wounded, according to police in Washington, DC. Several hundred people had gathered ...

WASINGTON (DC News Now) — June 19, aka Juneteenth, honors the end of slavery in the United States, and is known as the country’s second Independence Day. Each year, events ring across the country to ...