As Juneteenth rolls around, many Americans are celebrating the ending of slavery in the United States — and some for the first time. The annual celebration has been a long-standing tradition in Black ...

I’m a professor at the University of Michigan, and while psychology is my discipline, I’ve had a longtime affiliation with Black Studies. I talk to – and teach – my children about Black history. Both ...

Juneteenth—also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, or the country's second Independence Day—stands as an enduring symbol of Black American freedom. When Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and fellow ...

WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Jun. 19, marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free. Black Americans have long ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, found out they had been ...

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President Trump's removal of MLK Jr.'s Birthday and Juneteenth from free-entrance days at National Parks is offensive and ...

The National Park Service under the Trump adminstration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from the fee-free days. These ...

The National Park Service will cut Martin Luther King’s Birthday and Juneteenth, two holidays honoring Black history, from ...

The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to visitors on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, but ...