Barry McNealy, a historian with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, joined the CBS 42 Morning News to discuss the importance of Juneteenth.

Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.

The journey from local observance to national holiday was a lengthy one, spanning over a century-and-a-half of American ...

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Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Here's some of ...

As we commemorate this national holiday let’s also use this time to reflect on what it means to include emancipation, ...

Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union general Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 in this painting, titled "Let Us Have Peace" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.

APPOMATTOX, Va ... where Generals Lee and Grant met to negotiate the terms of surrender. Swift noted, "General Grant forbade any celebrations. He said, The rebels are countrymen again, we ...

Grant on April 9 at Appomattox ... “General, I messed up bad?” asks Powers. We’ve covered the history of The News-Press, the formation of Lee County, the storied history of the Lee County ...

and the pivotal siege of Petersburg that broke the back of the stalwart Army of Northern Virginia and led directly to general Robert E. Lee’s surrender at nearby Appomattox Courthouse.