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

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

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 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 ...

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed the ...

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 ...

An Oklahoma County Commissioner is setting the record straight after being at the center of a short-live controversy Tuesday ...

The Knoxville Smokies on August 8 honored and celebrated the Knoxville Giants, Knoxville's first Negro League team, on what ...

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