Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., will be observed as a federal holiday on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.

The city of Midland announced its plans for their annual Juneteenth Celebration Days commemorating the liberation of slaves in Texas following the American Civil War, better known as Juneteenth. The ...

First created in 1997 by National Juneteenth Celebration Foundation founder Ben Haith, the banner is in red, white and blue ...

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion initia ...

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery. See what President Trump said about it and what the holiday's flag means.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

María Esther Hammack, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, believes the first Juneteenth celebrations in Nacimiento may have been held as early as the 1870s due to military families ...

There is Al Edwards, for example. Edwards died in 2020, the year before Juneteenth was signed into law as a federal holiday. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1979 to 2007 and ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — Opal Lee, considered the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," was recently hospitalized, but her family says she is doing well. "She is doing well and in good spirits," Lee's ...

Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," is shown at her Fort Worth home on January 16, 2025.(Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) Opal Lee, a longtime Fort Worth civil rights leader known as the ...