For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

Juneteenth is a fine thing. First and foremost, the end of slavery is something we all should commemorate and remember.

A new historical marker was unveiled on the morning of Juneteenth at the Warren County Courthouse. The marker honors Peter ...

Juneteenth celebrations in Marion include a blood drive, concert, and historical marker unveiling. The blood drive will be held at the American Red Cross on Friday, June 20.

Juneteenth marks the day when slavery ended in the United States, and across the country, people celebrate. On June 19, 1865, ...

As a fitting end to Juneteenth weekend, on Sunday, June 22, the Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission unveiled a ...

On this Juneteenth, the Sugar Land 95, who ranged in age from 14 to 70, were honored with a historical marker at the same site. Descendents and Sugar Land 95 organizers say it's taken work to get ...

Among the gray tombstones weathered by wind, rain, and time in the historic North Cemetery of Portsmouth, N.H., there now ...

How befitting that we celebrate it every year now, the day that freedom came," Goode-Walker said during the historical marker ceremony Wednesday. Juneteenth commemorations Thursday were not ...

On June 19, 1865, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states, Union troops in Galveston, Texas, announced that the enslaved ...

Fort Bend New ‘Sugar Land 95’ historical marker to be celebrated in Fort Bend County. A Juneteenth festival on Thursday will coincide with the dedication of the historical marker, which ...

Seven years after the remains of victims of Fort Bend County's convict leasing system were discovered on a site of a future ...