State Rep. Terri Leo Wilson urges area residents to make their support known for resolutions that would cement Galveston's ...

Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they ...

The holiday is observed annually on June 19 to honor the slaves freed in Galveston Bay, Texas, on June 19, 1865. Texans celebrated Juneteenth beginning in 1866 with parades, cookouts, prayer ...

A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas Legislature would allow Texans to buy fireworks in celebration of Juneteenth. House Bill 554 by state Rep. Terri Leo Wilson (R-Galveston) would let ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth.

Let’s start with Juneteenth’s origins. It was first celebrated on June 19, 1866, on the anniversary of the day when federal troops galloped into Galveston, Texas, with the news that slaves had ...

Alabama Democrats have pushed over the years to make Juneteenth a state holiday. Givan has introduced a bill each year since 2023 and passed it out of the house in 2024, with the compromise that ...