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June 16, 2025

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in...

HBCyoU KIDZ: Creator Brooke Hart Jones was motivated “to help children see the beauty of this holiday and the strength of the people who lived it.”...

11th annual Juneteenth parade
to step off in Garfield Park

CBS News Chicago

Communities across Michigan are gearing up to celebrate Juneteenth — a celebration of slavery's end in the U.S. "Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and...

OperaCréole will present “Songs of Victory”, a concert celebrating Edmond Dédé’s “Morgiane”, the oldest known opera by a Black American. The event will feature performances by Lindsey Reynolds,...

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...

With Juneteenth just days away, the Jacksonville community is kicking things off in a big way. More than 150 Black-owned businesses lined the street of A Philip Randolph Boulevard Outeast Saturday....