Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ...

America's Second Independence Day is coming soon. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

Juneteenth has been celebrated in Reno for the past 37 years despite not becoming a federal holiday until 2021 and a state ...

The date is becoming more widely known due to the efforts of Black historians who have been sharing the date's importance ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is displaying a 161-year-old text that paved the way for the abolition of ...

Americans are "not alarmed enough" by President Donald Trump's federalization of the National Guard to secure Los Angeles, ...

Historic bricks in Houston's Freedmen's Town— a community founded by formerly enslaved people after emancipation—were damaged ...

Juneteenth recognizes one of the most important moments in U.S. history commemorating the end of slave. Here's when and why ...

President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, signed The Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Confederacy (the southern ...