June 19 marks the third consecutive year of Juneteenth as a federally recognized United States holiday. Also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America's second Independence Day ...

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

The area is still known as Emancipation Park ... Floyd and racial justice protests in the summer of 2020. Juneteenth Independence Day is now the 11th holiday recognized by the federal government.

A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...

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

Last year, both events were held on the same day next to each other, respectively in Frisco Park and a municipal parking lot alongside Front Street. They’re both planned for the same dates in ...

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 ...

That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that commemorates the emancipation ... Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day ...

including the emancipation of enslaved people that we honor on Juneteenth." Pallone said history can't be ignored. "The public deserves to know exactly what happened here – a coordinated ...