Eternal Seeds, a youth art program in New Orleans, unveiled a mural along the levee breach site, commemorating the 20th ...

Soaps are missing the (sail)boat by not telling more summer stories. Nothing beat the blockbusters we grew up watching. Remember Guiding Light's Bauer barbecue? From the 1980s to the final BBQ in ...

New OrLEaNS ‘Sometimes we forget our own majesty’ — capturing the cadence of New Orleans on Juneteenth On Juneteenth this year, an elder spoke of freedom still being unfinished. A young teacher ...

Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas. The ...

Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, attracting participants who said current events strengthened their resolve.

IN A NEW LOCATION FROM 12 PEOPLE TO THE LARGEST JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION IN PENNSYLVANIA. SOME OF THESE VENDORS WERE HERE FOR THE VERY FIRST GATHERING, AND IT STARTED OFF.

Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.

New Hampshire, one of the nation’s whitest states, is not among those with a permanent, paid or legal Juneteenth holiday, and Boggis said her hope that lawmakers would take action making it one ...

New Orleans attorney Juan LaFonta’s free Juneteenth celebration There are three colors in the Pan-African flag that was created in 1920. The color black represents the diasporic people of Africa.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Juneteenth is our nation’s holiday that celebrates when all citizens were free. Juneteenth is a federal holiday that commemorates when the enslaved in Galveston, Texas ...

Juneteenth: Resilience and resistance A federal holiday can’t be repealed without Congress. But silence and funding cuts can threaten its meaning ...

While relatively new on the national stage, the Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated in African American communities for more than 150 years.