Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in ...

Mail deliveries may be impacted on Juneteenth, the holiday in which Americans celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S.

Claims that no progress on racial equity has been made in the eight decades since Opal Lee graduated from I.M. Terrell are ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September of 1862, declaring that slaves would be freed in ...

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

In the four years since Juneteenth became a national holiday, Galveston has embraced its complicated past in a way it never ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV/KTRE) - Juneteenth events are planned this week around East Texas. Power Wheel Parade - Woldert Park 701 W.

An East Texas native and southern soul blues singer is returning home to celebrate and perform at Kilgore’s Juneteenth music ...

On June 19, 1865, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states, Union troops in Galveston, Texas, announced that the enslaved ...

America’s newest national holiday today also rises as America’s most misunderstood federal holiday. Part of that misunderstanding may come from its novelty to the masses. After all, Juneteenth has ...

The City of Kilgore celebrated Juneteenth with a parade and cookout on Saturday. The Kilgore Legacy Foundation hosted the ...

Several events are being held across North Texas to commemorate the day slaves in Texas learned that they had been freed.