In June, the United States will celebrate the date aptly described as our country’s second independence day by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. President Joe Biden ...

For the first time since 1983, a new federal holiday has been created. After passing the House and Senate earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill designating Juneteenth ...

(AP) - 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.

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. Learn ...

Last year, the U.S. government finally caught up with Black people who have been commemorating the end of slavery in the United States for generations with a day called “Juneteenth.” President Joe ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As the country celebrates Juneteenth, the annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., we asked prominent activists and allies from across the country what Black ...