The first Juneteenth celebration took place in Texas in 1866, with community gatherings featuring cookouts, prayers, and dances. In time, however, white people in certain areas began restricting ...

Juneteenth celebrations spread across the U.S. as families migrated from Texas. In 1980, Texas became the first state to make Juneteenth a state holiday. DAY OFF: A bill aims to add a new legal ...

The Milwaukee music festival is working with Northcott Neighborhood House, which organizes Milwaukee's long-running ...

The people danced and sang in celebration of their freedom. Today, we pay tribute to this historical day with a special holiday on June 19 called Juneteenth. This colorfully illustrated story takes ...

June 19 is honored as the first time Black Americans were thought of as free people in this country. The celebrations for Juneteenth began in 1866 – some people held parties, parades ...

Gary Clark Jr., Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Joy Oladokun are month the names slated to perform on the festival's first Thursday.

When President Joe Biden signed the bill, Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983. Many folks will choose to spend the holiday celebrating with ...

Summerfest and Northcott Neighborhood House are partnering to bring Juneteenth programming to the festival for the first time ...

The weekend’s festivities will be Blair County’s first communitywide commemorations, said St. Luke’s Junior Warden Greg Williams. Juneteenth National Independence Day commemorates the ...

The first participant will be filmmaker Channing Godfrey Peoples, who garnered widespread acclaim for her 2020 debut feature “Miss Juneteenth.” Dubbed the Neon X UFO Second Feature Development ...

Summerfest organizers has released some of the plans for Juneteenth Day programming at the 2025 music festival, which starts on June 19. Following Milwaukee's traditional Juneteenth Day parade and ...