Many thousands of people welcomed the summer in Porto the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by ...

Many thousands of people welcomed the summer in Porto the way the city has been doing it for decades and centuries: by ...

TV host Timmy Mallet has praised the “profoundly gorgeous” kindness of people after completing a cycle around the coastline of the island of Ireland.

People cheer and shoot video of a group releasing a flying lantern while celebrating the Saint John feast by the the Douro river in Porto, northern Portugal, Monday night, June 23, 2025.

Juneteenth Lehigh Valley, an organization honoring the holiday that memorializes the day Black enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were freed in 1865, put on the festival celebrating freedom.

“Because 1776, Fourth of July, where we’re celebrating freedom and liberty and all of that, that did not include my descendants,” Brown said. “Black people in America were still enslaved.

Juneteenth, a more recent federal holiday, is dedicated to celebrating the freedom of formerly enslaved Black people. Events take place across the country on June 19 to commemorate the day in 1865 ...

“Because 1776, Fourth of July, where we’re celebrating freedom and liberty and all of that, that did not include my descendants,” Brown said. “Black people in America were still enslaved.

But, the holiday surpasses the physical celebrations, and East Texas leaders say it's about celebrating freedom. ... marked the day freedom was given to enslaved people here in the Lone Star State.