For East Palo Alto residents like Eugene Jackson, Juneteenth is a time to reflect on both the end of slavery and the legacies established by the city's Black and Latino activists.

But on this year’s Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black ...

Jeri Mills' great, great, great grandmother was the daughter of one of the first enslaved people forced to help build Monte ...

The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that over 250,000 remaining enslaved people in Texas were ...

Several events are going on in honor of Juneteenth. The Mountain Spring Baptist Church East campus was full of action, commemorating the end of slavery.

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first ...

The federal holiday marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas.

Texas Southern University and the Houston-based law firm, Roberts Markland, announced a new partnership. The partnership will ...

Today is Juneteenth, the national recognition of the end of slavery in the United States, and celebrations are scheduled ...

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...