A Harrisburg event honored Black History Month by connecting youth and leaders while previewing upcoming Juneteenth celebrations.

On June 19th, 1865, the last enslaved African Americans were set free in the United States – a day that has been marked as a ...

The new Oni Press graphic novel dramatizes the life and work of Dr. Opal Lee.

Oni Press has just released a graphic biography on the origin story of Juneteenth, as told through the life of the woman most responsible for making it a national reality. First Freedom: The Story of ...

Biden's act of making Juneteenth a federal holiday marked the first federal holiday established since Ronald Reagan made Martin Luther King Jr Day a holiday in 1983. During a Juneteenth commemoration ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “very famous.” ...

Juneteenth came and went Thursday, but curiously something seemed to be missing from the annual celebration: a cordial salute from the president of the United States. Well, sure, you might say at this ...

TMJ4 will broadcast Milwaukee's 55th Juneteenth Day Parade for the seventh straight year on June 19, with historian Reuben ...

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 — ...

Upcoming agenda covers annex courtroom designations, making Juneteenth a county holiday, a Precinct 3 deputy constable, ...

Thursday marked the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth and freedom for Black Americans. The federal holiday recognizes the official end of slavery through the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by ...

Dr. Molefi Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University says June 19th, 1865, also known as Juneteenth, is a day that blacks in America should never forget. "It is ...