The federal holiday of Juneteenth falls on Thursday and will mean a number of closures for certain businesses. The annual holiday falls on June 19 and was first designated a holiday in 2021 by ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their children. In ...

(AP) - It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

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 — ...

This year brings the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, a major turning point in the fight to end slavery in the U.S. Juneteenth marks the day — June 19, 1865 — when some of the last enslaved Black ...

President Donald Trump canceled MLK Day and Juneteenth celebratory discounts nationwide. Here's what that means.

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence ...

It's known as America's Second Independence Day, and it's celebrated today. Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It's the longest-running African American holiday, and it ...