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

Since Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, its recognition has continued to grow in Michigan and nationally too.

Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, when President Joe Biden signed it into law. The bill passed with near ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...