This week we celebrate Juneteenth. On June 19th, 1865 Maj. General Gordon Granger and his Union soldiers arrived in Galveston ...

A historically black megachurch in Virginia has cut ties with the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

Spend the day at the Juneteenth Family Fun Day at Reedy Chapel AME: the first African Methodist Episcopal Church established in Texas and another place where General Order No. 3 was read in 1865.

The Maurice native is more than just a pretty singing voice — she also hopes to inspire others to follow their dreams without taking life too seriously.

Juneteenth celebrations and traditions vary across the US. As well as public readings and singing, picnics and church services, in some states rodeos, contests, concerts and parades are also ...

The area is still known as Emancipation Park. Nowadays, Juneteenth celebrations often involve cookouts, parades, church services, and other public events, per NPR. In 2022, for example ...

Juneteenth National Independence Day ... When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday. Where: St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site, 897 South Columbus Avenue, Mount Vernon. For more information ...

For the second year in a row, Community Partnership of the Ozarks and the NAACP of Springfield are hosting a weekend full of ...

Then there's Christmas, then Easter, then Juneteenth. We lived about 25 minutes ... in the tabernacle, there would be church going on. Folks would sing hymns like "Nearer, My God, to Thee" and ...