Government and state offices will be closed, as will the U.S. Post Office. That means there will be no mail delivery on ...

June 19th, 1865 was the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the emancipation proclamation ...

As people visit Little Rock to celebrate Juneteenth, many have been taking the time to reflect by checking out the many Black ...

Juneteenth was commemorated across the country on Thursday, including in Boston at Roxbury Heritage State Park.

Black Americans have long celebrated Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when a Union general rode into Galveston, Texas and told enslaved people there that the war was over and they were ...

Donald Trump has no Juneteenth events, while Joe Biden is expected to make an appearance in Galveston, Texas, to take part in a 160th -anniversary service.

The Spirit of Excellence hosted a Juneteenth celebration on June 19 at Jalonick Park to bring the community together for the ...

Across Connecticut, communities celebrated the Juneteenth holiday. Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday. Federal ...

Exactly 160 years after the final state was ordered to comply with the Emancipation Proclamation, Indiana joined the nation ...

But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly enslaved Black Americans at the end of the Civil War.

Thursday marks four years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, but for many Americans, the meaning behind the day is still unclear.