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, ...

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last group of enslaved people found out they had been freed. Long a holiday in the Black community and now ...

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 ...

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in ...