The African American Association of Ghana (AAAG), in collaboration with the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), has marked the 2025 Juneteenth, a commemoration of the emancipation of enslaved African ...

While the federal Juneteenth holiday marked its fourth observance as a U.S. federal holiday, people in the Virgin Islands ...

The annual Juneteenth holiday observes the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. It marks the day ...

Despite federal grant funding cuts, the Cooper Family Foundation held its annual celebration, which has been a part of the Southeastern San Diego community for decades ...

Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston and told a group of slaves that the Civil War had ended and they were free — more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

Washington — Former President Joe Biden criticized "ongoing efforts to erase history" during a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas — and ...

On that date, Union troops freed a quarter-million African American slaves in Texas. It was the last state to recognize President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation issued on Jan. 1, 1863.

Juneteenth celebrates when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of the Emancipation Proclamation on June 19, 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed it.

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States ... Their freedom came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln liberated slaves in the Confederacy by signing the Emancipation ...

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 ...