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

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

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 ...

The first Juneteenth was held in Galveston the next year. Celebrations were low-key affairs, often kept to church gatherings ...

It commemorates the day that news of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to enslaved people in the South. Juneteenth was the first federal holiday to be signed into legislation in the 21st century.

Two years after the Combahee Ferry Raid and President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the last enslaved people were set free in Texas on June 19, 1865 – a day celebrated as ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position ...

The striking Emancipation Memorial statue in Washington, D.C., shows Abraham Lincoln standing, while a man wearing only a loincloth is appearing to rise from a kneeling position.