African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...

US General Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, delivering the long-awaited news of emancipation to enslaved Americans — an ...

The 'We Are Home' project builds affordable homes for legacy families in Delray Beach’s historic The Set neighborhood.

Juneteenth was signed into law as a federal holiday on June 17, 2021, by former President Joe Biden. He was surrounded by ...

The first Juneteenth celebration took place in 1866, one year after Granger’s order. Some referenced the holiday as “Jubilee ...

Galveston launches Juneteenth by, reenacting General Order No. 3, the order that let slaves aware of their freedom.

What is Juneteenth? What is the proper way to celebrate it? Should holiday observers attend barbecues and cookouts? Should ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

DETROIT – Thursday is Juneteenth—also known as Freedom Day and Emancipation Day. It commemorates the end of slavery in the ...

The celebration in Leimert Park, billed as a “Black Family Reunion,” included many of the emotions that come with family ...

Two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas learned — via the ...

“On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves ...