Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A flag flies on a float during the 45th annual Juneteenth National Independence Day celebrations in Galveston, Texas, on June 15, ...

Juneteenth celebrations happened across Milwaukee on Thursday. The city is home to one of the country's longest-running Juneteenth celebrations. New this year, Juneteenth Day festivities will extend ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 17: An attendee adjusts his Juneteenth-themed hat during a neighborhood Juneteenth festival on June 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. Two years ago, President Joe Biden signed ...

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last group of enslaved people found out they had been freed. Long a holiday in the Black community and now ...

DJs dance and play music on stage during Kansas City's 2022 Juneteenth Heritage Festival in the Historic 18th and Vine district. The founder of the Black Archives of Mid-America brought Juneteenth to ...

As long as I can remember, Juneteenth was always celebrated in my house growing up. Maybe because my family on both sides are generationally Texan, and on my father’s side, those roots trace back to ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily)— Juneteenth, short for “June Ninteenth,” marks the end of slavery in the United States. It is the longest-running African American holiday and officially became a federal holiday in ...

MISSING. WE ARE COUNTING DOWN TO JUNETEENTH, A DAY TO REMEMBER THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S. JUNE 19TH, 1865 IS WHEN THE LAST SLAVES LEARNED THEY WERE FREE PEOPLE ACROSS THE METRO ARE REFLECTING ON ...