Did President Donald Trump cancel Juneteenth this year, or is it still a federal holiday? Juneteenth is the second spring holiday, following Memorial Day, but its future has been in doubt since ...

Columbia has finalized its list of organizations receiving grant funding for Juneteenth events. Sixteen applications for the Juneteenth Grant program were received, according to a community ...

Long Beach’s waterfront Juneteenth celebration, which has drawn thousands to celebrate Black culture and heritage for the past five years, has been canceled for the foreseeable future, according to ...

When the 117th Congress recognized Juneteenth as an official national holiday in 2021, few could predict how far celebrations would go across the country. According to one Idaho city, those ...

Nicole Beharie in Miss Juneteenth, 2020.Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment The feature debut of writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples premiered at Sundance in 2020, to great acclaim. But perhaps ...

In an effort to emphasize its stance on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and to focus on America’s upcoming 250th anniversary, the Trump administration has removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. “This book not only symbolizes the power one person has to motivate, connect and elevate the needs of others, but can also hopefully ...

A national Juneteenth center could be on the way in Galveston, with the chance to become a first-of-its-kind space commemorating the 160-year-old holiday that began on the Gulf Coast island. Galveston ...

President Donald Trump marked the Juneteenth holiday on Thursday with a Truth social post complaining that the nation has “too many non-working holidays.” “It is costing our country BILLIONS OF ...

For social justice activist Glenn Harris, President Donald Trump’s statement on Juneteenth, arguing there are “too many nonworking holidays in America” costing the country “billions of dollars,” was ...

More than 1,000 people — many wearing clothing related to a message of freedom — lined a nearly two-mile stretch of Washington Street in Waukegan Saturday, watching bands, drill teams, dancers and ...

Juneteenth celebrations took place across the U.S., commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned of their freedom. While long honored by Black Americans, the holiday has ...