Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Juneteenth, recognized on June 19, is a federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.

Columbus Day and Presidents Day are now in the crosshairs as debate erupts over which holidays America should actually ...

Thursday, June 19th, is Juneteenth, a federal holiday that marks the day when the last enslaved Americans were finally freed ...

On New Year's Day, 1863, Lincoln signed the final Emancipation Proclamation, which differed considerably from the first document. The final proclamation, "a fit and necessary war measure ...

June 19, Seattle University joins other communities nationwide in observing Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached enslaved Black Americans in ...

Acknowledging the historical link between the end of Black slavery in the U.S. and the creation of the State of West Virginia ...

To Kathy Brooks, president of the Frederick County alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., the essence of ...

Letter writers discuss history of Juneteenth, Holocaust exhibit in Virginia Beach and gubernatorial candidate Abigail ...

Those gathered June 19 for a Juneteenth commemoration in La Grange heard the Rev. Wheeler Parker tell of his cousin Emmett ...

The president had been expected to issue a proclamation about Juneteenth but White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ...

Jennifer Sharpe, former deputy editor of The Journal Record, has been contributing a weekly opinion column for more than three years. She was the 2023 winner of the Oklahoma Press Association ONG ...