Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Festivities will kick off with the annual Juneteenth parade at 9 a.m., featuring an array of floats, local dance teams and ...

Yes, Juneteenth is a state holiday in Missouri and is observed every 19th day of June. As such, all state offices are closed ...

Juneteenth celebrates when Union soldiers arrived to Galveston to announce to over 250,000 enslaved people they were freed in ...

As more and more people celebrate the holiday, some Black Americans are beginning to personalize the traditional menu.

Juneteenth was an informal holiday for decades, celebrated with parades, barbecues, and other gatherings. Fort Worth has a ...

Several MetroWest organizations and municipalities honor the holiday, which commemorates the ending of slavery in the United ...

The only known original copy of General Order No. 3, an 1865 decree that alerted enslaved people in Galveston of their ...

A celebration of Black history and freedom, the day rose in prominence following the sweeping protests against racial ...

Dallas darling Erykah Badu will headline a free Juneteenth concert — courtesy of Amazon Music — at the Bomb Factory in Deep ...

Does the mail run on Juneteenth 2025? Are banks open? Is the stock market open? Is the MVC open? What is NJ Transit's ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, the sole copy of the federal orders that freed enslaved Black people in Texas will be on display in ...