But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...

Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery ...

Today marks Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.The holiday celebrates June 19, 1865, ...

Juneteenth is a day of celebration for Americans, and a time to recall the end of chattel slavery on June 19, 1865.

Juneteenth, a fairly new federal holiday, remembers June 19, 1865, the day slaves in Galveston, Texas, were finally notified that they were freed through the Emancipation Proclamation, issued over two ...

The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that over 250,000 remaining enslaved people in Texas were ...

"Since this is a national holiday, it's time for us to bring something bigger to the Central Valley," said Landon Green, The Freedom Groups. "This Juneteenth is the largest African American festival ...

The last enslaved people in America learned of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation 160 years ago. It took two years after the proclamation was issues by President Lincoln for word to ...

Government and state offices will be closed, as will the U.S. Post Office. That means there will be no mail delivery on ...

June 19th, 1865 was the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the emancipation proclamation ...

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly enslaved Black Americans at the end of the Civil War.