Gov. Kay Ivey has treated Juneteenth as a state holiday for the past several years in alignment with the federal holiday.

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District announced Thursday. This year’s celebration will be from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

D.C. Emancipation Day celebrations continue, with a parade, festival, and concert commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

In addition to sponsors, the Juneteenth steering committee is ... two years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation -- the Union Army reached Galveston, Texas, with ...

The National Archives will display both the original Emancipation Proclamation and General Order No. 3 from June 18 to 20. The museum will also host its Juneteenth Celebration with Playback ...

A United States senator has introduced legislation to make the day after Easter a federal holiday so families can more easily ...

Denver’s annual two-day Juneteenth Music Festival will be scaled back to a single day this year because of declining sponsorship.

Juneteenth commemorates the pivotal day of June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Texas were freed, marking their ...