Liberation Station, the first Black-owned children’s bookstore in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, will be returning to a ...

Group chair expressed confusion over why Human Rights and Equity Commission wasn’t involved in discussion around Facebook ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday ...

Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn't well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson ...

Juneteenth is a paid holiday for state employees in Texas, New York, Virginia, Washington, and now Nevada as well. Hundreds of companies give workers the day off.

Juneteenth—the annual observance celebrating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865—is a holiday that many Americans haven’t heard of until recently. That has caused some to wonder ...

Juneteenth marks the day -- June 19, 1865, when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free -- two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and two ...

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom, two months after the Confederacy surrendered and more ...

ROME, N.Y. -- After facing weather-related issues in June, the Rome NAACP was able to hold its Juneteenth celebration. Bad weather forced the organization to postpone the June celebration. Community ...

A Juneteenth menu might incorporate items like barbecued ribs or other red meat, watermelon and red velvet cake. Drinks like fruit punch and red Kool-Aid may make an appearance at the table.