Boston's Juneteenth celebration will be held on Saturday, June 21 at Franklin Park. Picnics, barbecues, music and dancing are planned at Shattuck Picnic Grove and all around the park.

Boston police have identified the man who was shot and killed in a car on Juneteenth as 21-year-old Hyde Park resident Teo Vernice. Officers responded to a radio call about the shooting near 163 ...

As Americans marked the weekend heading into Monday’s Juneteenth holiday in varying ways, the mood in Greater Boston was decidedly a celebratory one.. Deemed a state holiday in 2020 and a ...

Embrace Boston is hosting the Embrace Ideas Festival this week, designed to coincide with other Juneteenth celebrations. “Embrace [Boston’s] work is to think about the ways in which monuments ...

Juneteenth was commemorated across the country on Thursday, including in Boston at Roxbury Heritage State Park. The holiday included a flag-raising at the Dillaway-Thomas House and a parade.

The Trump Administration's efforts to roll back DEI efforts has had the related effect of causing large corporations who work with vendors to deprioritize supplier diversity efforts, which aim to ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. The order provided by Union Major General Gordon Granger abolished slavery in the country ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

President Donald Trump did not issue any official statement on Juneteenth but posted on Truth Social about "non-working holidays." ...

This story was part of a special Juneteenth project originally published in 2022 with Vox that explored the ongoing struggle for freedom for Black Americans. As the Juneteenth holiday approaches, ...

Today Boston marks Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, which commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. On June 19, 1865, the Union Army reached Galveston Bay, Texas and ...