Gaffney, who bonded over their diverse cultural backgrounds, chose Juneteenth weekend to honor “the struggles and triumphs of ...

The annual Juneteenth celebration is returning to Staunton this weekend. Juneteenth itself is June 19 every year, but the ...

Juneteenth is a federal holiday Thursday marking the day when slaves in Texas were told about the Emancipation Proclamation, two years after it had been announced.

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...

In Denver, for example, more than a dozen companies backed out of supporting the Juneteenth Music Festival, which is one of the city’s biggest celebrations of the holiday, according to Norman Harris, ...

Juneteenth celebrations took place across the U.S., commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their freedom. While long honored by Black Americans, the holiday ...

Juneteenth was celebrated with dancing and a history lesson at the Center for African American History, Art, and Culture on June 21.

To close out Juneteenth celebrations, a healing and reconciliation vigil was held to focus on building back relationships ...

Some Juneteenth celebrations are seeing their funding decrease as companies and other underwriters pull their sponsorship amid a backlash to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Police arrested a second person in connection with a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration that left one dead and several ...

Despite Juneteenth’s status as a federal holiday, celebrations across the country are being scaled back or canceled, as organizers cite safety problems and mounting resistance to diversity ...

A Juneteenth event and evening drone show has been tabbed to replace the annual July 3 fireworks show at Glen Oak Park that was canceled last year because of neighborhood crime concerns stemming ...