SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their ...

Juneteenth organizers gathered the community together as a family Saturday, for a celebration called Juneteenth Family Reunion and an accompanying block party. Collaborating with the Black History ...

(AP) - 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.

Children learn the meaning behind Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

MIRAMAR, FLA. (WSVN) - From ceremonies to parades, South Florida joined the rest of the country in commemorating the official end of slavery after the Civil War in the United States. Hundreds of ...

Despite the gloomy weather Saturday in Portland, people gathered together to celebrate the Juneteenth Oregon festival. It’s the 53rd year the event has been celebrating the holiday, which fell on ...

MICHIGAN, USA — Thursday is Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the United States, located in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The news came on June 19, ...