Galveston launches Juneteenth by, reenacting General Order No. 3, the order that let slaves aware of their freedom.

The Juneteenth proclamation said that slaves were free from bondage, but were not going to be allowed to leave their owners.

Today is Juneneenth, a celebration commemorating the emancipation of slaves in the United States. WesternSlopeNow sat down ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from ...

Brooks understands the sacrifices that thousands of African Americans made throughout the 1800's, which is why he said this ...

Before freedom rang for enslaved people in the 1800s, their journey brought many of them to Lake Erie's shores. Now, the lake ...

Government and state offices will be closed, as will the U.S. Post Office. That means there will be no mail delivery on ...

June 19th marks the federal and state holiday Juneteenth, which commemorates the day back in 1865 when the final slaves in Galveston learned about their freedom. The notice came years after the ...