Claims that no progress on racial equity has been made in the eight decades since Opal Lee graduated from I.M. Terrell are ...

Listen to live music and poetry, learning about Black history and support Black culture in celebration of Juneteenth in County ...

There are several events planned in the Sacramento area this week in celebration of Juneteenth, which is also known as ...

America’s newest national holiday today also rises as America’s most misunderstood federal holiday. Part of that misunderstanding may come from its novelty to the masses. After all, Juneteenth has ...

June 19, 1865—when word of the Emancipation Proclamation reached the slaves in  Galveston Bay, Texas. Union General Gordon Granger delivered the news that President Lincoln had issued two and a half ...

MIDLAND, Texas — A Midland pageant honoring Juneteenth is doing more than crowning winners. It’s giving young Black students ...

Residents of all ages gathered at the Lincoln Recreation Center for a day of remembrance, unity and cultural celebration in ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A ceremonial groundbreaking will be held Thursday for the rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest ...

Though the Trump administration has been removing content on African American history from federal websites, Juneteenth ...

Juneteenth, celebrated annually in the United States on June 19, commemorates the liberation of enslaved Black people.

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