Schools in New York will have an extra day off this year, which will be a little taste of freedom before summer ...

Juneteenth, short for "June Nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, ... Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.

June 19 marks Juneteenth, which is a federally recognized holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved individuals in Texas on June 19, 1865.. The day was officially recognized as a federal ...

Juneteenth, short for "June Nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, ... Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.

Juneteenth, short for "June Nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, ... Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.

Juneteenth, short for "June Nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, ... Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021.

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.