DENVER (KDVR) — On June 17, 2021, then-President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, making it a national holiday. Colorado ‘stands united’ against divisiveness, ...

For decades, Denver could boast the largest Juneteenth festival in the country, an annual commemoration of the day that slaves in Texas finally learned they’d been freed by the Emancipation ...

Although Denver’s main Juneteenth event – a parade – already marched its way through Five Points last weekend – there are other events happening this weekend to celebrate the recently recognized state ...

As a teenager, Michael Hancock told Channel 4 that one day he wanted to be Denver’s first black mayor. Wellington Webb beat him to that title, but still, Hancock made history with one of the strangest ...

Today is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when U.S. Army troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and inclusion ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — For the first time since 2019, the Southern Colorado Juneteenth Festival is taking place at The Citadel Mall parking lot in Colorado Springs, despite losing half of ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – After Peterson Space Force Base (SFB) issued a memo warning servicemembers to avoid a Juneteenth celebration in Colorado Springs due to alleged concerns of violence ...