Juneteenth Tasting Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine. Celebrate the cuisine of the ...

Juneteenth, a day that marks the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans, is always observed on June 19 each year. It became ...

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Emancipation Day or the Second Independence Day, celebrates Black freedom in the United States.

Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking ...

The African American Advisory Board with the Jacksonville mayor’s office is holding a celebration for Juneteenth on Tuesday.

The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

Several events through the weekend are planned to celebrate the holiday Thursday. We look back at its history here.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating Juneteenth with multiple events throughout this month.