The National Park Service will offer free admission to U.S. residents on President Donald Trump’s birthday next year — which ...

ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ) – Permian High Coach Danny Wright held his 46th annual Juneteenth basketball tournament this weekend. Local athletes from middle school to the high school level competed ...

Lubbock Juneteenth continued its weekend-long Rise Up celebration Saturday with a parade and Freedom Fest for the Lubbock community. The Lubbock Juneteenth Committee has hosted the annual festivities ...

President Trump appeared to mark Juneteenth on Thursday with a Truth Social post arguing the United States has "too many non-working holidays." "It is costing our ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - On this day in 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas learned that they were free. This happened more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared ...

Plano, Ill., made national news in 2021 when it designated Juneteenth a holiday before the state or federal government. But this year, Plano’s fifth annual celebration is canceled. Organizer Jamal ...

Growing up, Cory Powell’s mother and grandmother told him stories about their childhood. Many of his favorite stories were the ones that focused on the history behind Juneteenth - a celebration and ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s. Juneteenth ...

Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up — both on the holiday itself and on the following weekend. The holiday ...

Those states with no official provision for Juneteenth include Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New ...

Let’s be clear: No president, not even Donald Trump, can eliminate Juneteenth with the stroke of a pen. It’s a federal holiday, signed into law in 2021 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The only ...

Juneteenth will be marked on Thursday, June 19, 2025. Juneteenth commemorates the day — June 19, 1865 — when federal soldiers arrived in Galveston to take control of Texas and ensure the slaves were ...