This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth, which commemorates the day the last group of enslaved people found out they had been freed. Long a holiday in the Black community and now ...

Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. Here's some of its history, and how it came to be a national holiday. President Abraham ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University Combining history and memoir, Annette ...

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President Donald Trump canceled MLK Day and Juneteenth celebratory discounts nationwide. Here's what that means.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of being ...

After decades of being celebrated at mostly the local level, Juneteenth – the long-standing holiday that commemorates the arrival of news of emancipation and freedom to enslaved Black people in ...