ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - It wasn’t until 2021 that Juneteenth became a national holiday in the United States. The holiday is also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day as it commemorates the end of ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Juneteenth is our nation’s holiday that celebrates when all citizens were free. Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates when the enslaved in Galveston, Texas were freed, ...

While the Trump administration has rolled back federal support for DEI initiatives, there is no public plan to change the status of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The fifth year since Juneteenth was ...

State landmarks were being illuminated in red, black, and green for Juneteenth. Fifteen landmarks were lit statewide, including some of the SUNY and state office buildings, the Empire State Plaza and ...

Around 50 people gathered outside North Las Vegas City Hall on Wednesday morning for a ceremonial raising of the Juneteenth flag. Juneteenth, held every June 19, commemorates the day when enslaved ...

The Juneteenth celebration will continue. Following last weekend's downtown event, the Mansfield chapter of the NAACP will hold the inaugural Juneteenth Jubilee Banquet starting at 6 p.m. Saturday at ...

Nassau Democratic legislators are pushing their Republican colleagues to vote on a bill that would make Juneteenth an official holiday in the county. “Nearly four years after Juneteenth became a ...

Looking at her grandchildren’s interest in a Juneteenth parade, Wendy Kimble can’t help but feel proud. “I love it,” Kimble said. “It gives us a time to be able to etch this moment in time and be able ...

In a 1995 Press-Republican article, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa talked about his attitude toward creating poetry in advance of his Black Poetry Day reading at SUNY Plattsburgh that ...