A Juneteenth celebration set to take place Saturday at Emancipation Park has been postponed because of recent rain. Event organizers called the celebration off as downpours this week left the park ...

Participants wave from a float at Galveston’s annual Juneteenth Parade in 2024. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in Texas. Also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day, it has been ...

This week, Houston Grand Opera is unveiling “A Voice Within,” a new song cycle created by HGO’s composer-in-residence Joel Thompson and librettist and Houston Poet Laureate Emeritus Deborah D.E.E.P.

Emancipation Park in Third Ward is about to get a major upgrade. Plans for a new outdoor performance stage and renovated cultural center were announced on Monday by the Emancipation Park Conservancy.

Emancipation Days returns Friday, Aug. 1, and this year’s events kick off with a ceremony in advance of planned renovations of Ewert Park. The annual three-day celebration, which is free, will also ...