President Donald Trump said the U.S. has "too many non-working holidays," but he hasn't shied away from other holiday proclamations. In an apparent critique of Juneteenth, Trump said in a June 19 ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” But on this year’s ...

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 ...

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.Learn ...

Woodland City Council passed a proclamation earlier this week declaring June 19 as Juneteenth. The Juneteenth celebration started June 19, 1865, when Texas Major General Gordon Granger read General ...

GREENFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – The Juneteenth celebrations were held Thursday, and the city of Greenfield held its annual Juneteenth proclamation. The Greenfield community was all excited and had the ...

But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No ...