Just 50 miles from Galveston Island, two community leaders are carrying the torch of freedom through affordable housing, ...

It may be a new federally recognized holiday, but the roots of Juneteenth date back to 1865. Here’s how some Arizonans are ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, commemorates the day on June 19, 1865, when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas and announced ...

San Diego has several events to celebrate Juneteenth, which commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas ...

What is Juneteenth and why is it a holiday? - Thousands of enslaved people in Texas were ordered free two years after Emancipation Proclamation ...

All Crossville City offices, as well as Cumberland County Offices and Tennessee state government buildings, will be closed ...