The Statesman has gathered 11 Juneteenth events to celebrate the state and federal holiday, from car shows to cookouts, in ...

Juneteenth has been recognized as a federal holiday since 2021, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans after the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, Union troops arrived in Texas, the ...

Brooklyn’s premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts – will once again team up with The Soapbox Presents, ...

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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

The handbill that informed slaves in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is displaying a 161-year-old text that paved the way for the abolition of ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops ...

The date is becoming more widely known due to the efforts of Black historians who have been sharing the date's importance ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation changing the legal status of slaves to free people on Jan. 1, 1863, but the war between the Union and Confederacy would go on for ...