On Thursday the nation will commemorate the day that enslaved Black people learned that they were free, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect. To ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The re ...

The name of the holiday blends the words "June" and "nineteenth" — representing how on June 19, 1865, Union Major Gen. Gordon ...

Entrance fees to all 63 of the nation’s national parks will be waived on Thursday as the National Park Service commemorates Juneteenth.