It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

All Crossville City offices, as well as Cumberland County Offices and Tennessee state government buildings, will be closed ...

They were honoring the past and celebrating the future on Tuesday at the Erie Veterans Hospital during their second annual ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Juneteenth Oregon is a locally-based nonprofit working to preserve and amplify the history of Juneteenth, a day representing freedom and independence for Black Americans and a state holiday! Every ...

Americans will be celebrating Juneteenth, the federal holiday marking the day when the last enslaved people in the U.S. were freed.

Juneteenth falls on Thursday, June 19 in 2025. Here's what to know about whether banks, post offices and shipping services ...

One of the largest pet adoption events in the Portland Metro Area, Kitten Palooza at Cat Adoption Team, returns this Saturday to match more than 100 adorable kittens with loving new families in a ...

The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

Juneteenth – short for June Nineteenth – recognizes the day in 1865 when Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas ...

Because Juneteenth is now classified as a federal holiday, many government offices and services will be closed on Thursday.