The bill is meant as a direct challenge to the state reproductive rights amendment passed by 57% of Ohio voters in 2023.

Juneteenth rolls around like that one friend who is all about freedom, resilience, and showing up with powerful stories. It commemorates the day enslaved African Americans in Texas finally got word ...

President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Each June, communities across the United States gather to celebrate Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "nineteenth”, as the ...

Palo Alto’s community leaders celebrated Juneteenth this week with a special proclamation, vowing to expand the city's commitment to diversity and inclusion at a time when these values are under ...

“…one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Of course, we understand that in 1775, at the time ...

Syracuse's own Juneteenth celebrations date back decades, with local Black communities calling it "our Fourth of July." ...

Juneteenth, the holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States, has been celebrated at the White House each June ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.

After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment ended slavery. It also created an immediate ... But many of his colleagues ignored this warning. The 14th Amendment had scarcely passed to the states ...