Upcoming events in Lake County include Mount Dora’s Juneteenth celebration on June 21 and Lake Amateur Radio Association’s ...

Juneteenth, observed annually on June 19, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.  The holiday traces its origins to June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in ...

Thursday is Juneteenth, and there are plenty of events in the Twin Cities providing opportunities to celebrate, learn and ...

Freedom Forward: A Juneteenth Celebration Empowerment through fitness, food and fun for the family. Special guests include ...

After several fights broke out this weekend, one Buffalo Common Council member is proposing new safety measures for the ...

The former president was on the guest list for the Emancipation March and Emancipation Service at Reedy Chapel.

Juneteenth’ s origins stretch back 160 years, to June 19, 1865 — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed ...

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The tradition began in 1865, when enslaved African Americans ...

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