Emancipation Days - like Juneteenth in Texas - are not what many people think, because emancipation did not do what most of ...

Gov. Kay Ivey signed a bill making Juneteenth a permanent state holiday, closing state offices annually on June 19 to ...

Juneteenth, observed on June 19, marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved African Americans in the United States were ...

Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of ...

That's the day we know as Florida Emancipation Day. Juneteenth is June 19. On that day in 1865, the very last reading happened in Galveston, Texas. Fred Hearns, the curator of Black History for ...

The United Community Organization has announced plans for a three-day celebration of Juneteenth that will be held from June ...

Juneteenth (also referred to as “Freedom Day”) celebrations vary by community. In Seattle, there are a number of ways to ...

Harrisburg will mark the 2025 Juneteenth holiday with a parade for the first time. The Juneteenth parade will be in ...

Juneteenth, or June 19, commemorates the day upon which Black slaves learned of their emancipation in 1865. Former President ...

Juneteenth, also called Emancipation Day, is a nationwide celebration on June 19 that marks the day that news of the Emancipation Proclamation spread to Texas in 1865. Emancipation Day was made an ...