The official Juneteenth holiday is on June 19, but many Central Texas celebrations will take place this weekend. After the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, thousands of African Americans ...

Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19, commemorates when the news of slavery’s abolition finally reached Texas. Enslaved people in Texas learned they were free two and a half years after the ...

Two people were killed and 14 others were injured and taken to hospitals following a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration at a Round Rock, Texas, park Saturday night, police said.An altercation broke ...

The two victims killed in a mass shooting during a Juneteenth celebration in an Austin, Texas, suburb over the weekend have been identified by police. The Round Rock Police Department said the two ...

Juneteenth is America's newest federal holiday, first celebrated nationwide in 2021, but the history of the holiday goes back more than 100 years. Let's get the facts. June 19th marks the day that ...

NORTH TEXAS — Though Juneteenth is a day to celebrate all slaves being freed, for many it is a time to remember the impacts of slavery on our country. It tore apart families, causing many African ...