SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Juneteenth was the day that the news that slavery had ended finally reached people in Texas. It's a conversation that until recently many families haven't had with their ...

(AP) - 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.

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Thousands came out to celebrate Juneteenth in Oakland with music, food and activities for the kids. Those in attendance knew it was a day to celebrate freedom -- an issue that ...

Dancing and music filled King Drive at Milwaukee's 54th annual Juneteenth celebration on June 19. The day featured a vibrant parade, live music, dance performances, art, food, vendors and activities ...

FREMONT – The weather was hot and humid, but the community Juneteenth celebration did not slow down. The Juneteenth event was hosted by the NAACP Unit 3217B in Fremont’s Birchard Park and Rodger Young ...

Since its start in 2016, Opal’s Walk for Freedom has drawn a bigger crowd each year. “It used to start and march down Evans Avenue there in Fort Worth, but now it’s really grown,” Leo Ceasar Jr. said.

MICHIGAN, USA — Thursday is Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the United States, located in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The news came on June 19, ...

JACKSON, MI -- Hundreds gathered at Jackson’s Horace Blackman Park for this year’s Juneteenth celebration and resource fair. Featured at the celebration were a variety of vendors serving food and cold ...