June 19 marks Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth ...

Juneteenth celebrates the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865—two and a half years after it was enacted to free enslaved people in Confederate territories ...

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last group of enslaved people found out they had been freed. Long a holiday in the Black community and now ...

A Juneteenth celebration in Prospect Park in New York City in 2022. (Michael Nagle/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images) Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a ...

Mr. Powdrell’s BBQ has been a staple for years, and Joseph Powdrell is just as well known. He organized Juneteenth celebrations for 13 years. “It was a time when America was thirsty. America was ...

If not our humanity, access to education nor reluctant police reform—Black Americans at the least are owed a Freedom Day that is indicative of our past, not a fabricated “celebration” that centers ...

Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a moving history of African American life and culture through the prism of Juneteenth. The award-winning Harvard historian ...

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University Combining history and memoir, Annette ...

A crowd at the 13th Annual Juneteenth celebration in Prospect Park Brooklyn on June 20, 2022. Combining history and memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed’s “On Juneteenth” offers a moving history of African ...