The State Bar of Texas rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the ...

LaGrange plans to add Juneteenth as an official paid holiday for city employees. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, marking the end of ...

Opal Lee, known as the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” saw her childhood home burned down in 1939. Habitat for Humanity in Fort Worth, Texas, built her a new home on the site last year.

Habitat for Humanity of Greenville County and Juneteenth Greenville teamed up to build a new three-bedroom home on Zora Drive in Nicholtown. The home, which is a little more than 1200 sq.

The group hoping to convert L.A. Morgan into a Juneteenth museum, meanwhile, is another nonprofit calling itself Hope Tutorial Inc. Affiliated with nearby Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church ...

Attendees at this year’s 2025 AFRAM Festival in Baltimore can expect to see some hit-maker performances at this year’s Juneteenth celebration. Called “AFRAM,” the African American music ...

Community members are invited to participate in the Evanston area-wide Juneteenth Parade, a celebration of freedom, culture and community. This year, we come together to honor the historical ...

There are 266 days left in the year. Today in history: On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) --The Father's Group organization in Bend has canceled this year's Juneteenth Celebration at Drake Park, noting "today's increasingly political climate, with rising incidents of ...

WILLIAMSON COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — A Williamson County District Court initially planned to review the case of an 18-year-old man involved in a shooting that happened during a Juneteenth ...

Sensex and Nifty have had a fair share of crashes over time. The first one recorded in books was the crash of 1865, tracing all the way back to 2025. However, the fall of April 7, 2025 ...

State Rep. Terri Leo Wilson put forth in the Texas Legislature House Concurrent Resolution 6 to designate Galveston as the Official Home of Juneteenth. Why, you might reasonably ask, would such a ...