For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

Now that the Juneteenth barbecues are over and Black Americans are done with their celebrating, we have time to respond to President Donald Trump’s reaction to the holiday. And boy, do folks online ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” But on this year’s ...

Mattel is introducing a new Barbie doll that honors pioneering activist Opal Lee, known as the "grandmother" of the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ...

But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No ...