Emancipation Days returns Friday, Aug. 1, and this year’s events kick off with a ceremony in advance of planned renovations of Ewert Park. The annual three-day celebration, which is free, will also ...

Just seven years after they learned of their liberation, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans banded together in 1872 to purchase Emancipation Park in Houston. The 10-acre park was meant to serve ...

Correction: a previous version of this story expressed that the Frist Art Museum was hosting a yearly August 8 Emancipation event, it was a one time event. America will celebrate Emancipation Day, ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s. Juneteenth ...

An emancipation day celebration in the coal mining town of Jenkins in Kentucky’s mountains was captured in this undated historic photograph from the early 20th century. (University of Kentucky) The ...

(AP) - It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

More than 200 people took part in this year’s annual Juneteenth A Celebration of Freedom Walk on June 19 in Grayslake. Thursday’s weather for the walk, which began shortly after 5 p.m., was mostly ...

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in ...

Cities and towns across Massachusetts will hold events in honor of Juneteenth for the third year in a row. Former president Joe Biden deemed Juneteenth — also known in the past as Freedom Day, ...

DETROIT – Thursday is Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day. It commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It marks June 19, 1865, when Union Army Major General Gordan ...