Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

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

Opal Lee is now affectionately known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. She led the campaign for the 19th June, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas were finally told that they were free, to ...

For Ms. Opal, the hope was to ensure that a history she understood as central to her story, and to the story of our nation, ...