Ashanti headlines the R&B Music Experience. Our picks for the 2025 Juneteenth holiday also include a silent dance party and a ...

With many kids out of school for summer as a holiday week arrives, parents may be looking for things to do in the Chicago ...

Cultural and food booths, entertainment and an invitation to join in the dancing were part of Skokie’s Juneteenth celebration ...

Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. There will be celebrations ...

From wellness retreats to lectures and film screenings, there are plenty of ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Chicago.

A Juneteenth parade celebrating the contributions of African Americans to the city and to the world took place Saturday on ...

The annual Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony, featuring guest speakers including Mayor Brandon Johnson, was held Monday ...

Juneteenth Chicagoland’s Intersection of Celebration and Calls for Justice The mid-June sunshine reveals Bronzeville streets ...

On Juneteenth I think about all the freedom fighters — famous and forgotten — who walked before us. And I think about all of ...

Houston's Juneteenth celebration of legacy will honor the life of Sheila Jackson Lee ...

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.