While there are several Juneteenth events taking place all across Columbus, one venue stands out from the rest — the historic Lincoln Theatre, which has served as a cultural hub for African-American ...

Today is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when U.S. Army troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves effective January of ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Kettering is celebrating Juneteenth with a “Party in the Park”. Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth was only recently established as a federal ...

On that date, Union troops freed a quarter-million African American slaves in Texas. It was the last state to recognize President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation issued on Jan. 1, 1863.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Thursday marks Juneteenth. The federal holiday marks the day that enslaved people in Texas learned about their freedom, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the ...