Juneteenth Tasting Event, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Findlay Market, 1801 Race St., Over-the-Rhine. Celebrate the cuisine of the ...

Juneteenth is a holiday that honors the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed.

The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal ...