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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The National Park Service has unveiled a revamped calendar for its fee-free days, swapping out MLK Day and Juneteenth for Flag Day (also President Trump's birthday) and Constitution Day.

WASHINGTON — The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on Thursday, June 19, a federal holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were ...