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 ...

Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

Dr. Molefi Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University says June 19th, 1865, also known as Juneteenth, is a day that blacks in America should never forget. "It is ...

The National Park Service under the Trump adminstration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from the fee-free days. These ...

In place of these days, the Trump administration has opted to celebrate more former presidents' birthdays and Trump's ...

Americans will no longer get free admission to the country's national parks in observance of MLK Jr. Day and Juneteenth, but ...