We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Juneteenth has become a federal holiday in recent years, commemorating the emancipation of the last enslaved people in Texas ...

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Juneteenth became a time for both reflection and celebration, blending solemn remembrance with joyous expressions of culture ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

This is not just a celebration of how far we've come in 160 years, but also showing that there's still a lot of work that ...

Syracuse's own Juneteenth celebrations date back decades, with local Black communities calling it "our Fourth of July." ...

Broadway veteran Danielle Lee Greaves stars as Minnie McKnight in the Tony-winning musical “Parade,” hitting L.A.’s Ahmanson June 17.

FORT CHISWELL — Descendants of a Wythe County doctor and one of his slaves on Saturday visited ... to see people of color in this historic period,” said Betty Jean Wolfe, who teamed up with ...