While the Trump administration has rolled back federal support for DEI initiatives, there is no public plan to change the status of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The fifth year since Juneteenth was ...

(AP) - 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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump has been mocked on social media after complaining on Juneteenth that the United States has too many public ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

is your Calallen and Northwest Corpus Christi Neighborhood Reporter. “Happy Juneteenth!” — a greeting filled with joy and pride — echoed through the room on Thursday as community members came together ...

President Trump did not issue any direct public comments about or host any events commemorating Juneteenth, the federal holiday that marks the official end of the United States’ enslavement of people.

While the Trump administration has rolled back federal support for DEI initiatives, there is no public plan to change the status of Juneteenth as a federal holiday. The fifth year since Juneteenth was ...