An Oklahoma County Commissioner is setting the record straight after being at the center of a short-live controversy Tuesday ...

Juneteenth is one of America’s oldest holidays and is observed each year on June 19 to mark the official end of slavery in the US. The day, which gets its name from combining June and 19, has ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday ...

Commissioner Myles Davidson said Juneteenth will make it onto Oklahoma County’s list of holidays next year, despite claims he ...

President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.

Juneteenth marks the day -- June 19, 1865, when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free -- two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and two ...

Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn't well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson ...

Juneteenth at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Avenue. There will be performances, art, a treasure hunt for kids, an afterglow celebration and more.

On June 19, Americans will celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, with block parties, cookouts and educational events. While ...

Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to a recent hospitalization.

Commissioner says Juneteenth omission was a 'clerical error' Tsunami alerts issued for Alaska, West Coast after magnitude 8.8 ...