Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly narrowly approved Juneteenth, or June 19, as an official paid holiday for borough staff at its meeting on Thursday. The 5-4 decision would increase the ...

Editor’s Note: This piece is an updated version of a story that originally ran in June 2022. Despite Juneteenth’s storied history, the holiday was largely overlooked by non-Black Americans ...

State Rep. Terri Leo Wilson urges area residents to make their support known for resolutions that would cement Galveston's ...

The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly will consider this week whether to make Juneteenth an official paid holiday for borough staff. An ordinance co-sponsored by Assemblymembers Scott Crass ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, became aware of their freedom, two years after Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. On Saturday, Gov.

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas Legislature would allow Texans to buy fireworks in celebration of Juneteenth. House Bill 554 by state Rep. Terri Leo Wilson (R-Galveston) would let ...

A Black man is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and ...