Juneteenth became the newest U.S. federal holiday in 2021, but it has held significance for many Black Americans for a long ...

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

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Juneteenth marks the moment Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas in 1865. The Standard's Sean Saldana reports on how the city ...

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four ...

For many, Juneteenth is a time to reflect on the African American journey from the brutality of slavery to the resilience of generations who fought for civil rights and equality. Arkansas holds a ...

For beginners and those brushing up on history, here are some answers: ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...

This is a day of great significance for Galveston, for the United States and for anyone who truly does believe in the concept ...