Juneteenth has arrived, with Americans now celebrating its fifth year as a federally recognized holiday. Given its relatively new status as a federal holiday, you may be wondering whether your local ...

Today is Juneteenth, an annual holiday across the U.S. that commemorates the abolition of slavery. June 19 marks the day in 1865 when roughly 2,000 Union Army soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, with ...

Americans will celebrate Juneteenth on Thursday, marking the day when the last enslaved people in the United States learned they were free. For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of ...

Any student of American history knows that there are hard truths to ponder about our past. Slavery certainly falls into this category. Today (Thursday, June 19, 2025), the United States commemorates ...

Juneteenth, which marks the end of slavery in the United States, is now officially a federal holiday. For the fourth consecutive year, millions of Americans will observe the day on June 19, 2025. As a ...

After a loss of funding in 2025 forced the Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival to move locations, the 2026 festival is already on the books for a new location that will ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the ...