From wellness retreats to lectures and film screenings, there are plenty of ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Chicago.

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday — expanding its ...

Black Girl Vitamins (BGV), a brand deeply committed to the health and empowerment of the Black community, announced its ...

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...

Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony, featuring guest speakers including Mayor Brandon Johnson, was held Monday morning at Daley ...

Juneteenth flag-raising ceremony, featuring guest speakers including Mayor Brandon Johnson, was held Monday morning at Daley ...

Area residents are invited once again to join in with all of the Juneteenth activities that are being brought to us by the ...

Thursday is Juneteenth but celebrations have already begun. The Atlanta History Center celebrated with an event focused on Black craftmanship over the weekend and the 13th annual Juneteenth Atlanta ...

MLK Jr. Parade & Juneteenth Celebration is this Thursday, June 19, 2025. You’re sure to see a neighbor. Parade lineup starts at 8:30 a.m. at Chilhowee Park and steps off at 10 a.m., marching down ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Supporters of President Donald Trump have flown into conniptions over Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s creation of a task ...