Also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America's second Independence Day, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. Many Americans have celebrated it ...
For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth.
The Metuchen Edison Piscataway Area Branch of the NAACP’s Juneteenth celebration this year has been moved off federal ...
The origins of Juneteenth date back to June 19 ... Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, Goler ...
Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second ...
In anticipation of Juneteenth, our experts have put together a helpful guide for families to educate and engage children around this important holiday. The Civil War ended in April 1865, but news of ...
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 ...