When Rasool Berry grew up hearing about Juneteenth, he heard the same false story most Americans do: That the holiday celebrated the date, June 19, 1865, when Galveston, Texas, finally received word ...

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 ...

For me, the Juneteenth Holiday is not about celebrating an individual hero like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., or celebrating outstanding figures during Black History Month, but about honoring ...

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 — ...

Juneteenth Art Expo, Adaptive Golf Team, Harrison Preston – From Dust to Art. This week on Arizona Illustrated…Tucson celebrates Juneteenth with the second annual art expo at the Drawing Studio, the ...

A new book from the "Grandmother of Juneteenth" is coming out before this year's federal holiday. It's been nearly 4 months since Nancy Guthrie disappeared. An ex-FBI special agent believes the names ...

Celebrate Juneteenth with NBC 5, Telemundo 39, and Unity Unlimited, Inc. as we honor Dr. Opal Lee at Opal’s Walk for Freedom at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, June 19, at Will Rogers Square in Fort Worth.