This story was reported by Mercedes Hamilton, Aidan Johnson and Nicholas Spangler. It was written by Spangler. Long Islanders celebrated Juneteenth on Thursday, commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

STUTTGART, Ark. (KATV) — Cali Reed, a 12-year-old from Pine Bluff, was recently crowned Miss Stuttgart Juneteenth 2025, and she couldn't be more thrilled. "I was really nervous backstage, but then I ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Thursday marks four years since Juneteenth became a federal holiday, but for many Americans, the meaning behind the day is still unclear. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, ...

(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.