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 ...

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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 ...

Juneteenth became the newest U.S. federal holiday in 2021, but it has held significance for many Black Americans for a long ...

June 19, 1865, about 2,000 Union troops marched into Galveston Bay, Texas to announce the freedom of the remaining enslaved people, 2 years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Juneteenth ...

Today is June 19, otherwise known as Juneteenth. It’s a day rooted in cookouts, parades and festivals. Despite the tradition and spectacle, not all Americans know ...

The importance of voting in New York City's mayoral primary was front and center at a Juneteenth celebration in Downtown Brooklyn on Thursday. The federal holiday marks the day in 1865 that enslaved ...

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...