From wellness retreats to lectures and film screenings, there are plenty of ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Chicago.

The annual Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony, featuring guest speakers including Mayor Brandon Johnson, was held Monday ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday — expanding its ...

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...

Black Girl Vitamins believes that in America's current political climate, Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

We sat down to learn more about the Grand Rapids African American Museum & Archives' Juneteenth event, featuring food, live music and scholarships.

Rockford will commemorate "Liberation Day" for African Americans who were enslaved in the United States with the city's ...

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. The ...

Area residents are invited once again to join in with all of the Juneteenth activities that are being brought to us by the ...

MLK Jr. Parade & Juneteenth Celebration is this Thursday, June 19, 2025. You’re sure to see a neighbor. Parade lineup starts at 8:30 a.m. at Chilhowee Park and steps off at 10 a.m., marching down ...

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