Detroit is honoring Juneteenth this year with community events blending history, art, sports and even rodeo. The big picture: ...

Manitowoc County Historical Society will explore the history and meaning of Juneteenth during a themed program June 20.

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved people statewide.

Jefferson, famous for the Declaration of Independence, is also often quoted from a letter he wrote in 1816 to John Adams: " I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past ," he ...

Jennifer Bartell Boykin, The Mixsress, Jahnna Blyden, Atiba Smith and Kari Lebby told Free Times what "liberation" means to ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - People gathered at Rockford’s Ethnic Heritage Museum for its 2025 Juneteenth celebration. Rockford Readers Theatre preformed, reading things like the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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

Bristol Black Collective is honoring Juneteenth in Fall River with a brunch, a celebration, and a community reading of ...

Juneteenth is an important day in Black history as well as American history. Though Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Northeast Michigan is hosting a free Juneteenth program from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday ...

Denver’s Juneteenth Parade marched through the Five Points neighborhood, kicking off the Juneteenth Music Festival on Sunday, ...

There are so many ways to celebrate Juneteenth in NYC this year. From Broadway to Black Restaurant Week. Here's everything you need to know about the federal holiday.