June 19, 2025, marks the fifth consecutive year that Juneteenth is a federally recognized United States holiday.

Just seven years after learning of their freedom, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans purchased land in 1872 to ...

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...

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

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in ...

The last enslaved people in America learned of their freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation 160 years ago. It took two ...

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

June 19 has witnessed some of the most transformative events in world history, spanning social justice milestones, groundbreaking scientific achievements, ...

Galveston launches Juneteenth by, reenacting General Order No. 3, the order that let slaves aware of their freedom.

President Donald Trump will not commemorate Juneteenth, despite previously taking credit for the relatively new federal ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal ...

The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and ...