After decades of advocacy and cultural recognition, Juneteenth has finally been established as an official U.S. holiday. The ...

Biden's act of making Juneteenth a federal holiday marked the first federal holiday established since Ronald Reagan made Martin Luther King Jr Day a holiday in 1983. During a Juneteenth commemoration ...

Americans across the country celebrated the federal holiday commemorating the day the last group of enslaved African Americans were informed they were free. June 19, dubbed Juneteenth, reflects on a ...

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 ...

In the place where Juneteenth was born, people are telling the story of the holiday’s origins in a unique and visual way. “Maya Angelou has a great quote, ‘history despite its wrenching pain cannot be ...

Valerie Boyer was born and raised in Galveston, Texas. Years after thousands of Black Union soldiers marched into Galveston to free the remaining slaves in the state — over two years after the ...

Explore the Galveston Movement and its significance in Jewish-American history, highlighting the story of early immigrants.

GALVESTON, Texas — Samuel Collins III wears many hats around Galveston, Texas. Native to the area, memory keeper and mentor, he has a fire within to preserve the stories of Juneteenth. "There's a ...

Former President Joe Biden will be in Galveston for a Juneteenth service at Reedy Chapel AME Church. When in office, Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday. Juneteenth ...

Reginald Adams has seen the future. Not really, but the acclaimed Houston artist has a pretty good idea what might happen once Galveston’s tourists get a good look at “Absolute Equality,” the new ...