CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — June 19, 1865, marked the day when the last enslaved people were freed in Galveston, Texas. Now, Juneteenth is for celebrating Black joy and resilience. On Wednesday, the ...

Galveston holds a sacred place in American history.

In 2025, Juneteenth turns 160 years old. Officially recognized as a federal holiday in 2021—becoming America’s 11th national observance—Juneteenth commemorates one of the country’s oldest and most ...

Juneteenth has an important economic angle that’s perfect for this newsletter: how freedom can unlock our productive capacity through greater human flourishing. Emancipation may have delivered the ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

My paternal family hails from Shepherdsville, Kentucky. They fled the racist and economically discriminatory practices of Jim Crow, joining the earliest waves of the Great Black Migration. My ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Juneteenth is our nation’s holiday that celebrates when all citizens were free. Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates when the enslaved in Galveston, Texas were freed, ...

WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Jun. 19, marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free. Black Americans have long ...