ZFT, a Black-founded run club, started with just a handful of runners around the Juneteenth holiday and has grown to the ...

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four ...

At the Camp William Penn Museum in Cheltenham, thousands of Black Civil War soldiers are remembered for their contributions to the Union.

Today is Juneteenth, and the National Weather Service (NWS) is predicting a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1 p.m. It will be mostly sunny throughout the ...

Late Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee was the driving force in establishing Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when slaves in Galveston learned they were free, as a federal holiday.

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are fighting to preserve history.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Juneteenth celebrations are being held across Southeast Texas, but Thursday’s weather could include a scattering of afternoon ...

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops ...