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

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Just seven years after learning of their freedom, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans purchased land in 1872 to ...

We stood under the towering bronze statue of late state Rep. Al Edwards, who introduced the legislation to make Juneteenth a state holiday in 1980. Texas was the first state to honor it.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of ...

Juneteenth is often described as the day “slavery ended in Texas,” but the truth behind it tells a deeper, more sobering ...

Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ...

Down the street from Binghamton’s Harriet Tubman statue, the Juneteenth celebration is the oldest recognized celebration of ...

Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call the Emancipation trail, a 51 mile route from Galveston to Houston.