The federal holiday of Juneteenth falls on Thursday and will mean a number of closures for certain businesses. The annual holiday falls on June 19 and was first designated a holiday in 2021 by ...

For the first time since 1983, a new federal holiday has been created. After passing the House and Senate earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill designating Juneteenth ...

This year brings the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, a major turning point in the fight to end slavery in the U.S. Juneteenth marks the day — June 19, 1865 — when some of the last enslaved Black ...

(KRON) — Juneteenth became an official federal holiday starting in 2021 under former President Joe Biden to recognize the freedom of formerly enslaved Black people. On June 19, 1865, Union General ...

(AP) - It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.