By the time the drumming and dancing starts Thursday, an organization that promotes African American history and culture in ...

One hundred sixty years after word reached Galveston, Texas, that enslaved African Americans were now free, the city is ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

On Thursday, the United States government is pausing its ongoing transformation into the sharp instrument of Donald Trump ’s ...

In Juneteenth’s fifth year as a federal holiday, commemorations of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States continue to evolve in the Baltimore area and beyond.

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

Let Marylanders be at the forefront of a growing movement to recognize the end of slavery and work toward a better, more ...

Americans after comparing Black American experiences to life under Iran's theocratic regime during heated exchange on 'The ...

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Pentagon to go light on commemorating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery.

Several communities in the region have Juneteenth events, and at the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh, organizers say there is an ...

It may be that trying to undo a national holiday, particularly one as publicly embraced as Juneteenth, would be a harder sell ...

Google marked Juneteenth Thursday with a Google Doodle crafted to represent both African American heritage and culture, and ...