For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history's darkest chapters with joy — such as parades or ...

The St. Louis Park City Council passed a proclamation at its June 16 meeting observing Juneteenth 2025. Juneteenth is a federal holiday recognizing the day, June 19, 1865, when enslaved ...

The holiday honors the last enslaved people in Texas learning of their freedom in 1865—two years after President Lincoln ...

The New York Stock Exchange is closed for business on Juneteenth in observance of the federal holiday. Juneteenth National Independence Day, recognized as a federal holiday ...

Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all.

The first Juneteenth celebration took place in 1866, one year after Granger’s order. Some referenced the holiday as “Jubilee Day” or “Freedom Day” and gathered in homes, parks and communities to ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will speak to reporters Thursday amid rising tension in the Middle East between ...

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

Harriette Cole is a lifestylist and founder of DREAMLEAPERS, an initiative to help people access and activate their dreams. You can send questions [email protected] or c/o Andrews ...

The Warren County Emancipation Proclamation Committee will host its second Community Juneteenth Celebration from 11 a.m.-3 ...

Delivery of this weeks’ print edition of The Journal by the US Postal Service was delayed until Friday due to the Postal Service being closed for the Juneteenth holiday on Thursday.

Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it.” -Albert Einstein On June 17, 2021, President Joe ...