Juneteenth on Thursday commemorates when the last enslaved Black people in the country were finally told they were free. What ...

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...

Juneteenth, celebrated on June 19, marks a pivotal moment in American history, commemorating the emancipation of the last ...