President Donald Trump does not have the power to unilaterally cancel Juneteenth or any established federal holiday. To do so ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they had been freed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juneteenth has not been scrubbed from the list of holidays observed by Oklahoma County government, but its omission sparked a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents of the historic Pullman neighborhood celebrate Juneteenth during a parade and block party hosted by the National A.

For the first time since 1983, a new federal holiday has been created. After passing the House and Senate earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill designating Juneteenth ...

Last year, the U.S. government finally caught up with Black people who have been commemorating the end of slavery in the United States for generations with a day called “Juneteenth.” President Joe ...

Americans will soon celebrate Juneteenth, 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 one of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Gov. JB Pritzker made Juneteenth a state holiday Wednesday. Juneteenth, which falls on Saturday, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Pritzker signed the legislation ...

For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in America” costing the country “billions of dollars,” was ...