Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's known as America's Second Independence Day, and it will be celebrated today throughout California and the rest of the U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juneteenth is often referred to as the nation's "Second Independence Day," and communities nationwide and in Oklahoma celebrate ...

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four years after President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, was officially recognized as a federal holiday in 2021—more than a century after it was first celebrated. As Americans across ...

Juneteenth is a significant day for African Americans, especially in Texas, even before it became a federal holiday. There's a lot of work that goes into getting a holiday federally observed, and much ...

Can Trump Really Cancel Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday? *With Donald Trump back in the White House and already swinging his sledgehammer at diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, many ...

A Juneteenth mural in Galveston is located at the site of the issuance of General Order No. 3, which demanded “absolute equality” between enslaved Texans and former slave owners after the Emancipation ...

Marqueta Collins with Believe In Your Body Movement Boutique was selling T-shirts at the Juneteenth Cookout, hosted by the Kansas City Defender and Decarcerate KC. At the Juneteenth Cookout, families, ...

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 ...