Juneteenth

The holiday marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed, two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

Events are planned around Greater Boston on Monday to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday.

The Emancipation Proclamation will be permanently displayed next to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence in D.C.

Boston celebrated Juneteenth with flag raisings, parades and numerous other events throughout the city on Monday. The holiday marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed, two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The day started in Boston with an event at the JFK Library in Dorchester at 10:30 a.m., followed by…

Monday represents Juneteenth, the second year the holiday has been recognized federally. Many celebrations are planned in the Boston area.

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities.

Mrs. Cooper died in March of 2023 at the age of 92. Her remains were to be placed in the same plot where her husband was buried 22 years ago. The two would be reunited in death — or so they thought.

The Embrace Ideas Festival wrapped up Friday with a joy-filled Embrace Boston block party at the community college in Roxbury. The festival is a yearly celebration of ideas about arts and culture, and the 3-day gathering is rooted in racial equity, healing, well being and joy. The annual festival is always wrapped around Juneteenth, which is this coming Monday, so…

A San Diego family who served as a long-time pillar of the Black community starting in 1960s is suing a local cemetery for allegedly losing their father’s remains after he died 20 years ago.

Fort Worth is hosting Opal Lee’s annual Walk For Freedom, and the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” said she’s not slowing down anytime soon.

For the last three days, the Embrace Ideas Festival has been happening in Boston.

Many Americans will be marking Juneteenth this month. It’s the day when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free.

NBC10 Boston, Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra and NBC Sports Boston are the proud media partners of the Embrace Ideas Festival hosted by Embrace Boston. The festival takes place June 14-16, the three days leading up to the Juneteenth holiday weekend. The Festival, grounded in arts, ideas, culture and public scholarship, is an annual celebration of Juneteenth, the holiday that celebrates the…

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021. Here’s what you need to know about this important holiday.

In Boston and across the nation, Juneteenth is commemorated by moments of community, education, festivity and observance of one’s culture. But what is the holiday, and how can Bostonians get involved in the celebration? On June 19, 1865 — months after the end of the Civil War— Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to begin freeing enslaved people, a day…

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a Juneteenth concert next week in a “celebration of community, culture and music,” the White House announced Wednesday.

A Texas woman who helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday has become the second Black Texan honored with a portrait on the walls of the state’s Senate chamber.

Voters approved ballot measures that will change their state constitutions to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for crime.

A Maine town has condemned a “disgraceful” sign posted in a window that mocked Juneteenth using racist stereotypes of Black people. The sign on a business window in Millinocket said of Juneteenth, the federal holiday that marks the end of slavery in the United States, “it’s whatever… We’re closed.” That was followed by a reference to foods that have...

Brandon Byrd, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, joins LX News to discuss the history of Juneteenth.