WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” But on this ...

People across Washington are celebrating Juneteenth on Thursday, the holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. June 19 holds significant meaning for both American ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved men and women in Texas found out they were free. But liberation didn't arrive in one day.

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.Learn ...

GALVESTON, Texas -- The most popular Juneteenth celebration of emancipation is in Galveston, Texas, where the last enslaved people were freed. The city designated five sites you can walk to explore ...

On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3. The message was ...

Retired Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge LaDoris Cordell speaks at the “We the People” Democracy Fair at Rinconada Park in Palo Alto on June 14, 2025. Photo by Anna Hoch-Kenney. When Union Army ...