“A lot of people in Houston still don’t know the story of Freedmen’s Town,” she says. “That it was born the child of Juneteenth. It’s not just an important part of Houston ...

Houston Texans Legend Cecil Shorts III recently visited Emancipation Park, the oldest park in Texas, to learn more about Juneteenth and the role it has played in the life of African Americans.

Check out the Tulsa Juneteenth Festival website for more information. Houston has its own special Juneteenth history. In 1872 four residents who were all formerly enslaved (Rev. Jack Yates ...

Cecil Shorts III visited sites in Galveston that help teach the significance of Juneteenth in our shared history. He reflects on what the visit meant to him after talking with people in Galveston ...

The award comes just months before the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth. It was back on June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas.

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 ...

To get around one such instance, for example, Black community leaders in Houston in 1872 purchased a plot of land intended specifically for Juneteenth celebrations, NPR notes. The area is still ...

Juneteenth is widely celebrated across the ... it was the only public park and swimming pool in the Houston area that was open to African Americans, and remained so until the 1950s.