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 ...

Officers and crowds wait outside Reedy Chapel in Galveston, Texas, for the Juneteenth church service on June 19, 2025. (Cameron Thompson / Courthouse News) GALVESTON, Texas (CN) — Even in the Texas in ...

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

Former President Joe Biden commemorated Juneteenth in Galveston, Texas, hours after President Donald Trump raged there are “too many” holidays in the U.S. Biden spoke at a Juneteenth celebration ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Molefi Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University says June 19th, 1865, also known as Juneteenth, is a day that blacks in America should never forget. "It is ...