Americans across the country celebrated the federal holiday commemorating the day the last group of enslaved African Americans were informed they were free. June 19, dubbed Juneteenth, reflects on a ...

Jun. 19—Clad in a striking peach outfit color-coordinated right down to her fingernails and taking no prisoners, Vallejo's first poet laureate blasted out her poem "Galveston" at the Juneteenth ...

This year brings the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, a major turning point in the fight to end slavery in the U.S. Juneteenth marks the day — June 19, 1865 — when some of the last enslaved Black ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- This year marks the 157th anniversary of Juneteenth, the holiday that recognizes the first day of freedom for enslaved Africans in Texas and commemorates the end of slavery in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...