The Public Education Foundation is hosting a Black Girl Magic Juneteenth Jubilee Luncheon which raises scholarship funds through PEF’s Scholarships Plus program while celebrating Black excellence, ...

Robyn Boyland of Bellevue hands out candy to a pair of young girls while dressed as Tiana from the Disney Movie The Princess ...

On June 19, 1865—the day we now commemorate as “Juneteenth”—the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed more than two years earlier.

Juneteenth, the celebration of the good news in 1865 that the great abomination of slavery had ended, is a contradictory holiday. It’s joyful in that it commemorates the emancipation of millions of ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Juneteenth is a relatively new federal holiday, but it's origins date back more than 160 and it is widely considered the nation's ...