The museum’s special programming targeted visitors who may not have known about America’s second independence day and the people behind it. Zoe, 2, shows off the Juneteenth flag she made while ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. As the nation this week made Juneteenth a ...

A view of a section of the 1865 Juneteenth General Order No. 3 that is displayed by the Dallas Historical Society at the Fair Park Hall of State in Dallas on June 6. It was 160 years ago that enslaved ...

On the surface, a day to celebrate slavery’s end seems self-evident. It was a despicable institution that plagued every human civilization for thousands of years. Its existence in the U.S. opposed the ...

Today is Juneteenth, an annual holiday across the U.S. that commemorates the abolition of slavery. June 19 marks the day in 1865 when roughly 2,000 Union Army soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, with ...

ATLANTA – The Trump administration has altered which days national parks will allow free entry for residents and citizens next year. The change means Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, among ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

This year will be the first Juneteenth under the second Trump administration, which has banned DEI initiatives, including Black history content This year will be the first Juneteenth under the second ...