This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.

Juneteenth will be celebrated on Thursday, June 19, 2025. However, it's unknown if it will be a state holiday this year.

Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ...

Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn't well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson ...

Former President Joe Biden celebrated Juneteenth on Thursday at a historic Black church in Texas, calling for Americans to come together to push the country forward.

Juneteenth is observed federally and at the city level, but not at the state level. Here's a look at what businesses will be ...

Making Tulsa safer, that's the focus of several people in the community following the deadly shooting at the Juneteenth ...

Washington — Former President Joe Biden criticized "ongoing efforts to erase history" during a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas — and ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday ...

The Juneteenth flag flies in Omaha, Nebraska. AP/Nati Harnik. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation making Juneteenth an official holiday in the Empire State in October 2020.. After ...

Juneteenth—the annual observance celebrating the end of slavery in the United States in 1865—is a holiday that many Americans haven’t heard of until recently. That has caused some to wonder ...

"I feel like, in a way, people have lost a reverence for Greenwood," Tony Williams, a member of the Greater Tulsa Area African American Affairs Commission, said.