Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed its Black residents that they were a free people. The 246 years of ...

Acknowledging the historical link between the end of Black slavery in the U.S. and the creation of the State of West Virginia, Democratic lawmakers urged their colleagues and Gov. Patrick Morrisey to ...

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

President Donald Trump took to social media Thursday on Juneteenth, a federal holiday, to criticize the number of “non-working holidays” in the United States.“Too ...