ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - People gathered at Rockford’s Ethnic Heritage Museum for its 2025 Juneteenth celebration. Rockford Readers Theatre preformed, reading things like the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.