A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

Clifford Brown Jazz Fest in Del., Fishtown Beer Fest in Philly and Food Truck & Music Fest in South Jersey are among weekend ...

Food and cooking play a big role in Juneteenth celebrations. The barbecues and fish fries woven into Black culture helped ...

A sculptural exhibition on Mall C in downtown Cleveland has captured the imagination of the city as Juneteenth approaches.

Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

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

The sixth annual NOLA Juneteenth Festival will begin at noon on Thursday at Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park. Though it ...

Isabel Wilkerson, author of "Caste" and "The Warmth of Other Suns," reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and on the push-and-pull of the Black experience in America.

Organizers of Juneteenth celebrations across the U.S. tell NPR how they're feeling this year. And NPR presents a reading of ...

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

Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...

Who put Juneteenth so close to Flag Day? It's almost as if the flag of the United States was meant to wave over all people longing to be Free At Last, Free At Last. Why should all the fireworks be ...