June 19, 2025, marks the fifth consecutive year that Juneteenth is a federally recognized United States holiday.

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021. “Now the whole entire nation is recognizing it, I think it will have that bigger ...

Just seven years after learning of their freedom, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans purchased land in 1872 to ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal ...

Government and state offices will be closed, as will the U.S. Post Office. That means there will be no mail delivery on ...

Rev. Al Sharpton and filmmaker Spike Lee marked the holiday by speaking out about racial injustice, immigration reforms, and ...

June 19 has witnessed some of the most transformative events in world history, spanning social justice milestones, groundbreaking scientific achievements, ...

Donald Trump has no Juneteenth events, while Joe Biden is expected to make an appearance in Galveston, Texas, to take part in a 160th -anniversary service.

June 19th, 1865 was the day enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the emancipation proclamation ...

Exactly 160 years after the final state was ordered to comply with the Emancipation Proclamation, Indiana joined the nation ...

As people visit Little Rock to celebrate Juneteenth, many have been taking the time to reflect by checking out the many Black ...