CANTON ‒ Staff at the William McKinley Presidential Library & Museum celebrated Juneteenth with a craft project that featured a Juneteenth flag. Tameka Ellington, curator of black history, led ...

GEORGETOWN, S.C. (WCIV) — The Georgetown County Library has announced the lineup of events for their inaugural Juneteenth Festival, which will take place throughout June, across multiple dates and ...

Greater Somerset County YMCA invites the community to join in a series of special events in celebration of Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the emancipation of the last enslaved African Americans ...

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 ...

Juneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday, arrives this week. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the ...

Juneteenth is the nation’s newest federal holiday, established in 2021. The name blends the two words – “June” and “nineteenth” – that marks the day, June 19, 1865, that commemorates the final stop, ...

WASHINGTON — 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 ...