Lewis, of East Germantown, was arrested early Friday and charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment and firearms ...

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

President Joe Biden signed legislation on June 17, 2021, making Juneteenth a U.S. federal holiday after Congress passed The Juneteenth National Independence Day Act that same month.

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—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 is celebrated on June 19 and commemorates the date in which Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger told community members in Galveston, Texas about President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

The Marlin Juneteenth Organization is helping local families prepare for the new school year by giving away over 150 ...

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, although it is not universally observed. Oklahoma County observes it, ...