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, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., will be observed as a federal holiday on Thursday, June 19, 2025.

The day marks the end of slavery in the US, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.