Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American culture. GALVESTON, Texas — Galveston is marking the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth with a week of celebrations honoring the legacy of emancipation and African American culture.

Juneteenth marks a pivotal part of our nation's history. For one family, it's also a time to reflect on their past: the journey of their enslaved ancestors and the success that followed.

Juneteenth celebrates a milestone in African American history. Do some, in and out of Washington, want to sweep that history under the rug?

Just 50 miles from Galveston Island, two community leaders are carrying the torch of freedom through affordable housing, wealth creation and

Juneteenth celebrations will take place in cities and town across the country. This national holiday celebrates the day union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to alert enslavers that all enslaved Africans and their descendants were free;

They were honoring the past and celebrating the future on Tuesday at the Erie Veterans Hospital during their second annual Juneteenth event. The word Juneteenth is a combination of “June” and “nineteenth,

Juneteenth honors June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to enforce the emancipation of enslaved African Americans — over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all enslaved people in the Confederacy.

It’s been four years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, and Black revelers in metro Atlanta are finding unique ways to mark the occasion. The annual commemoration of the day in 1865 when formerly enslaved Black Americans in Galveston,

It may be a new federally recognized holiday, but the roots of Juneteenth date back to 1865. Here’s how some Arizonans are celebrating.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation