Juneteenth

Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States and commemorates June 19,1865, when Union troops in Galveston Bay, Texas informed enslaved people of their right to freedom under the Emancipation Proclamation.

There's a new national holiday. President Joe Biden has signed a law making Juneteenth a nationwide celebration.June 19th has long been marked by African…

Note: In commemoration of Juneteenth, we're reposting our story about this annual June 19th tradition. It first published and aired on June 17, 2016.Every…

Juneteenth is the June 19, 1865 date on which people in slavery in Texas were informed they had been granted freedom by the Emancipation Proclamation, two…

A longtime educational organization will honor Kalamazoo shooting survivor Tiana Carruthers this Sunday. For almost two decades, Ujima Enterprises…