The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. A number of those soldiers are buried in the National Cemetery in Raleigh. There will be ...

COLUMBIA - The United States Exercise Tiger Foundation honored Black veterans and those who died in conflict at a wreath-laying ceremony Wednesday morning as part of the Juneteenth holiday. The ...

In honor of Juneteenth, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society will host a multi-part wreath-laying ceremony at Harriet Chapel and at the Museum of the Ironworker in Catoctin Furnace Village near ...

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 ...

Confession: I had never heard of Juneteenth until I came to D.C., after college. A colleague and friend who was dating a guy from Texas told me about it. Even then, I thought it was a regional thing, ...

The federal holiday of Juneteenth falls on Thursday and will mean a number of closures for certain businesses. The annual holiday falls on June 19 and was first designated a holiday in 2021 by ...

June 19, 2025, marks the fifth consecutive year that Juneteenth is a federally recognized United States holiday. Also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or America's second Independence Day, ...