Americans across the country celebrated the federal holiday commemorating the day the last group of enslaved African Americans were informed they were free. June 19, dubbed Juneteenth, reflects on a ...

Thursday, June 19, marks Juneteenth. The holiday commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States in 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the Emancipation ...

MADISON (WLUK) -- For the sixth year in a row, the Juneteenth Flag will fly over the Wisconsin State Capitol. Gov. Evers proclaimed June 19, 2025, as “Juneteenth” throughout the state of Wisconsin.

City officials and members of the Bellingham community raised the Juneteenth flag Monday afternoon in a brief ceremony outside City Hall. Also called Freedom Day, Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, when ...

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. The ...

Clad in a striking peach outfit color-coordinated right down to her fingernails and taking no prisoners, Vallejo’s first poet laureate blasted out her poem “Galveston” at the Juneteenth flag-raising ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The federal holiday Juneteenth was recognized one day early in the city of Chicopee. The rain didn’t stop the city in celebrating Juneteenth, also known as ‘Freedom Day.’ For ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The pouring rain didn't stop early Juneteenth celebrations from taking place Wednesday morning. Milwaukee leaders gathered at the Zeidler Municipal Building to raise the ...