Here is a growing list of Independence Day events across the region... Gravietts Memorial Ball Field 6/27 at 5 p.m. - 6/28 at ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the ...

June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers liberated Texas slaves, came to be known as "Juneteenth," the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration.