From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox. The first Juneteenth celebration took place in Texas in 1866 ...

Juneteenth is coming soon, and any independence day is cause of celebration. The Augusta area has festivals, concerts, ...

Save the Children encourages parents and caregivers to talk with their children about the history of race in America. In anticipation of Juneteenth, our experts have put together a helpful guide for ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’ together, and has been celebrated every year by African-American people to ...

The project team behind the National Juneteenth Museum have shared new renderings of the future building in Fort Worth, Texas ...

Are banks open on Juneteenth in 2024? That's a question plenty of folks are asking just ahead of the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. The answer is no ...

The list of stock market holidays grew by one in 2022, after Congress voted the year prior to make Juneteenth — the June 19 holiday commemorating the end of slavery — the 11th federal holiday.

Opal Lee, the 'Grandmother of Juneteenth,' visited Paul Quinn College to discuss Black history and the fight to make ...

This week, the Defense Intelligence Agency ordered a pause on activities related to several observances, including Black History Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day and Juneteenth. Dr. Opal Lee ...