Juneteenth Festival in Elgin’s Festival Park has been canceled this year because the date organizers wanted for the event was ...

If you need to visit a bank or post office this week, you may want to consider going before or after Wednesday. That's ...

Juneteenth quotes celebrate freedom, resilience, and the fight for equality in the United States. Discover powerful words ...

the Indiana National Guard account posted that it "proudly commemorates Juneteenth, a historic day that marks the end of slavery in the United States." Now, the link to the post says "this page ...

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 Juneteenth holiday, sometimes called Freedom ... and did not even know about the proclamation. As The Washington Post wrote, it was not until June 19, 1865, that “Union Army Maj.

Opal Lee, Juneteenth's "Grandmother," was honored with the Kay Bailey Hutchison Women of Texas History Award in Houston, Texas, for her efforts to make Juneteenth a federal holiday.

The red, white and blue Juneteenth flag marked with a single bursting star signifies the end of a dark chapter in American history when the last slaves were freed more than two years after the ...