The celebration in Leimert Park, billed as a “Black Family Reunion,” included many of the emotions that come with family ...

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The holiday marks the date in 1865 – more than two years ...

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...

Galveston – Thursday marks 160 years since the end to slavery in the United States or Juneteenth. The island city of ...

Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American ...

A photographer's journey to the Gulf Coast city yields 16 images that reveal how its natural beauty melds with its momentous ...

Thursday, June 19 marks the Juneteenth holiday, the day in 1865 when enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas learned ...

Ohio History Connection's Valerie Boyer on Juneteenth's origin. She is a Galveston, Texas, native.

With flags, ceremonies, parades and pomp, celebrations across the United States marked the day the promise of freedom finally ...