Texans can only buy fireworks around the holidays of the Fourth of July, New Year's and, for Texans who live near the ...

At least two people were killed and several others injured during a shooting at a Juneteenth celebration in Round Rock, Texas, on Saturday night, police said. The victims were shot shortly before ...

The name "Juneteenth" marks this historic day literally, as a combination of "June" and "19th." In Texas, a Long Delay Keeps ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas Legislature would allow Texans to buy fireworks in celebration of Juneteenth. House Bill 554 by state Rep. Terri Leo Wilson (R-Galveston) would let ...

Jubilee Day. Juneteenth is known by many names. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger delivered General Order No. 3 to the enslaved people and residents of Galveston, Texas, ending slavery in ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The "grandmother" of Juneteenth, Opal Lee, was honored with a special award in Houston on Thursday. Lee received the Kay Bailey Hutchison Women of Texas History Award at a ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

Historian Benjamin Heber Johnson, reared in Houston, retells Texas history in a way that will appeal to a broad range of the state's readers.