Activists handed out free keffiyehs and Palestine Action got platformed twice in an event suffused with anti-Israel activism ...

Zaha Hassan, Policy Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment, delivered a powerful speech challenging the framing of the Nakba as a ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Former President Joe Biden stressed the importance of voting at the Juneteenth celebration on Galveston Island Thursday. Biden was among the dignitaries who attended the ...

What Jamal Williams remembers from Plano’s Juneteenth celebration three years ago isn’t just its record attendance — the organizer and former alderman said about 1,100 people showed up.

Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas.

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Several community members in Wausau are hosting a Juneteenth celebration for the fifth year in a row. Juneteenth commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States. On ...

A celebration of freedom and opportunityHe says Juneteenth marks a pivotal moment in history. It's the last day enslaved people in the United States found out they were free, and he says this must be ...

Fayette’s 25th annual Juneteenth celebration began last night with a lecture about the Iron Riders, a group of Black U.S. Army soldiers who rode 1,900+ miles on bikes from Montana to Missouri in the ...

The first official celebrations, initially called "Jubilee Day" celebrations, took place a year later across Texas, featuring parades and public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation. Over ...

Over time, these celebrations spread, and the date's name evolved into "Juneteenth," expanding to include church services, festivals, marches, community gatherings, picnics, and days of action.

Hosting the Juneteenth celebration costs more than $100,000, according to The Voice of Youth Changes Everything Inc. (V.O.Y.C.E.), the nonprofit that organizes the festival.