Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

Juneteenth falls on June 19 each year and is marked with a series ... treatment of its Black citizens. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday ...

The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth ... protests in the summer of 2020. Juneteenth Independence Day is now the 11th holiday recognized by ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

The Metuchen Edison Piscataway Area Branch of the NAACP’s Juneteenth celebration this year has been moved off federal ...

As celebrations erupted and cannons fired in 1776, my ancestors' freedom was not yet tangible. That was the case until nearly 100 years later, on June 19 ... Juneteenth falls on the same day ...

The Black Expo’s “Juneteenth on the Ohio River” will return at 4 p.m. June 21 in English Park. This will be OBE’s eighth Juneteenth celebration overall, following its debut program in 2018. Juneteenth ...

Texans can only buy fireworks around the holidays of the Fourth of July, New Year's and, for Texans who live near the ...

The answer is no, banks are not open on Wednesday, June 19. While Juneteenth ... signed the bill, Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

Alabama Democrats have pushed over the years to make Juneteenth a state holiday. Givan has introduced a bill each year since ...