The City of Kilgore celebrated Juneteenth with a parade and cookout on Saturday. The Kilgore Legacy Foundation hosted the ...

The Statesman has gathered 9 Juneteenth events to celebrate the state and federal holiday, from car shows to cookouts, in the ...

Juneteenth will soon be celebrated here in Louisiana, but is the holiday still federally recognized? Here's what to know.

Juneteenth serves as a powerful reminder of how far we’ve come against great odds and a call to action to continue investing ...

Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. The stock market will not be open on Juneteenth, ...

Juneteenth recognizes one of the most important moments in U.S. history commemorating the end of slave. Here's how to ...

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...

Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19 and falls on a Thursday this year.

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday — expanding its ...

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...