Ashanti headlines the R&B Music Experience. Our picks for the 2025 Juneteenth holiday also include a silent dance party and a free edition of SupAfrique.

Chicago offers various events and activities to celebrate Juneteenth, including a cookout, resource fair, music festival, and educational workshops.

Juneteenth Chicagoland’s Intersection of Celebration and Calls for Justice The mid-June sunshine reveals Bronzeville streets filled with drumbeats and laughter while barbecue aromas spread through the air.

The Juneteenth installment of the short film series “Life Within the Lens” will take place 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at the Music Box Theatre. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers.

Events celebrating Juneteenth are taking place this weekend, including the Juneteenth Family Festival happening Saturday in Beverly and Morgan Park. The free festival is expected to draw more than 5,000 people. There will be vendors, free entertainment, basketball tournaments, and more.

ABC 7 Chicago celebrates Juneteenth with the half-hour special, "Our Chicago: In God We Trust…?" June 14 & 15.

Juneteenth celebration, commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States, will be held Saturday at Rotary Hill Park.

Organizers say this year's theme is conquering our past, commemorating our present, and committing to our future.

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

The city of Aurora officially launched Juneteenth Week 2025 with the crowning of the new Mr. and Miss Black Aurora on Thursday night at Aurora University’s Crimi Auditorium, city officials