NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Juneteenth foods celebrate freedom and tradition, but the color of the dishes also has a special meaning. "From the motherland in Africa, we have some jollof rice," said Joseph ...

LOS ANGELES -- Elita Adjei was born in Houston and raised in California, where she and her family carried on Juneteenth traditions and celebrations passed down over the years. Adjei welcomed us into ...

While corporations, educational institutions and government agencies are backing away from diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, Juneteenth celebrations are going on as scheduled. Commemorating ...

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. The ...

As Juneteenth approaches, many events in the Upstate are planned to take part in and celebrate a holiday which is described by the National Museum of African American History and Culture as our ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

ANDERSON, S.C. (WSPA) – Several events are going on in honor of Juneteenth. The Mountain Spring Baptist Church East campus was full of action, commemorating the end of slavery. A large crowd spent the ...

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 ...

The first of Oneonta’s Juneteenth celebrations took place Thursday, June 19, bringing together 37 vendors and community groups, plus entertainers and speakers, for an afternoon of community building ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Several Juneteenth events were highlighted across the Ark-La-Tex Thursday (June 19). June 19 marks Freedom Day, which many have called America’s second Independence Day. The ...