Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

Lubbock will mark the upcoming Juneteenth holiday with a day-long celebration Saturday. The festivities will begin with a community breakfast for seniors from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Mae Simmons ...

The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they ...

The fifth annual Juneteenth Jubilee will be held on June 14 at Festival Park in downtown Fayetteville. The event is a celebration of Juneteenth, which commemorates the emancipation of enslaved ...

A Black man is troubled by the legacy of American slavery and the misuse of Christianity to justify it. He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and ...

César Chávez Day honors the late Mexican American civil rights activist who dedicated his life to advocating for farmworkers' ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- For the fourth year in a row, the Medina community will come together in the city’s historic square to observe Juneteenth. “Last year, we think we had well over 600 people and ...

Jun 21, 2020 Jun 21, 2020 Updated Mar 12, 2025 About 850 people received barbecue meals during a drive-thru service in the parking lot of the People’s Missionary Baptist Church in Tyler Saturday ...

Opal Lee, 97, spent years advocating to get Juneteenth recognized as a federal holiday Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019 ...