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 book not only symbolizes the power one person has to motivate, connect and elevate the needs of others, but can also ...

NEW YORK -- As the U.S. officially made Juneteenth a federal holiday, many major corporations are also giving their employees paid time off to celebrate and commemorate. Most federal workers will ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- More companies are recognizing Juneteenth. Retailers like Best Buy and Target have made it a paid company holiday. Others, like Fifth Third Bank, have planned employee celebrations ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As the country celebrates Juneteenth, the annual holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., we asked prominent activists and allies from across the country what Black ...

Are you ready to celebrate liberation? Every year on June 19, communities around the United States mark Juneteenth, the date the last 250,000-some enslaved African-Americans were freed in the United ...

Former president Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston. The ex-president's plans were confirmed by a person with knowledge ...

The holiday traces back 160 years on the island, to the day General Gordon Granger announced enslaved people were free two ...