Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., is this week.Observed annually on June 19, expect ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

Today Boston marks Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, the Union Army reached Galveston Bay, Texas and it ...

Long Beach’s waterfront Juneteenth celebration, which has drawn thousands to celebrate Black culture and heritage for the past five years, has been canceled for the foreseeable future, according to ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their children. In ...

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Now that the Juneteenth barbecues are over and Black Americans are done with their celebrating, we have time to respond to President Donald Trump’s reaction to the holiday. And boy, do folks online ...

On February 17, the Post Falls, Idaho, City Council voted 4–2 to remove Juneteenth from the city’s paid holiday list and restore Columbus Day, a move with local policy and cultural significance. Mayor ...

It was a night of prepared statements and even the occasional prop Tuesday as Post Falls City Council members worked reach consensus on the addition of a meeting invocation, the repeal of the current ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “very famous.” ...