On Thursday a freedom bell, commissioned by Texas A&M University’s Department of Architecture, returned to Galveston, the ...

The annual Juneteenth celebration marks the day union soldiers arrived in Galveston to inform slaves they were free. The arrival on June 19, 1865 happened nearly two and a half years after the ...

Another Juneteenth has come and gone, except in Galveston. Former President Joe Biden's visit to the island last Thursday and the ballooning number of celebrations worldwide (Mexico, Ghana ...

Juneteenth, a federal holiday celebrated annually on June 19, honors the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans in a Confederate community in Galveston, Texas, who were notified that ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- The most popular Juneteenth celebration of emancipation is in Galveston, Texas, where the last enslaved people were freed. The city designated five sites you can walk to ...

One year after freedom was granted to Black men, women and children in Galveston came the first celebration of Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day, Liberation Day and Jubilee Day in its ...

The mural is located in the exact place that on June 19th, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Major General Gordon Granger, who arrived in Galveston with Union soldiers ...

Like residents across American, Jackson was celebrating Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the day that Union General Gordon Granger and his troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to proclaim ...

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...