On Thursday, the Milford community gathered at Bicentennial Park for a day of music, food, fellowship, and fun to celebrate ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black ...

These celebrations included such dates as January 1, in North Carolina, April 3, in Richmond, Virginia, and April 16 ... the military context leading up to the events on June 19, 1865, in Galveston.

The lieutenant governor, attorney general and all 100 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates will also be on the ballot in November.

The second confirmed case of measles has been reported in Virginia, this time in Charlottesville. There have been 1,046 confirmed cases and three confirmed deaths in the U.S. so far this year as ...

A new exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture explores the often neglected stories of free Black Virginians spanning from the arrival of the first captive Africans in ...

Here's a look at some of the National Park Service events planned this week to mark Juneteenth National Independence Day.

From 1830 to 1860, the Manchester Docks — or Ancarrow’s Landing — was a major port in the massive slave trade that made ...

This story was part of a special Juneteenth project originally published in 2022 with Vox that explored the ongoing struggle ...