WASINGTON (DC News Now) — June 19, aka Juneteenth, honors the end of slavery in the United States, and is known as the country’s second Independence Day. Each year, events ring across the country to ...

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.Learn ...

Juneteenth recognizes one of the most important moments in United States history. Also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day and Black Independence Day, ...

Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation in the United States, is this week. Although Juneteenth celebrations were documented as early as 1866, it wasn't officially recognized ...

The Trump administration is reshaping when Americans can enter national parks for free – adding President Donald Trump’s ...

The National Park Service will cut Martin Luther King’s Birthday and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black history, from ...

The U.S. National Parks have removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from its list of free entry days, instead including Donald ...

The National Park Service has unveiled a revamped calendar for its fee-free days, swapping out MLK Day and Juneteenth for Flag Day (also President Trump's birthday) and Constitution Day.

President Trump's removal of MLK Jr.'s Birthday and Juneteenth from free-entrance days at National Parks is offensive and ...