Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...

Michigan will celebrate Juneteenth on June 19, 2025. Here's a look at what's open and closed on the federal holiday.

Detroit is honoring Juneteenth this year with community events blending history, art, sports and even rodeo. The big picture: ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - Juneteenth events are planned this week around East Texas. Power Wheel Parade - Woldert Park 701 W.

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved people statewide.

While Juneteenth is recognized as a state and federal holiday, private businesses don't have to close or offer the day off. Here's what some Atlanta businesses have planned.

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

Bristol Black Collective is honoring Juneteenth in Fall River with a brunch, a celebration, and a community reading of ...

Now in its 159th year of celebration, Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, commemorates the day some of the last enslaved people in Texas were freed. Union Army Major Gen. Gordon Granger ...

and Miss Juneteenth Texas, Madison Swain, on his “Freedom Walk Tour,” which highlights the sites where the orders of freedom were read. Higgins and Swain are both college students who won ...

Once the Emancipation Proclamation laid its roots in Texas, those freed from slavery declared the day of its arrival "Juneteenth" in homage to the date when it finally happened. Although the ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed ...