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Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the Emancipation Proclamation reaching the last Confederate state, is around the corner. Here's what to know.

Juneteenth is also referred to as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day. Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983 and is at least the 11th federal holiday ...

Nigerian singer Tems has been announced as one of the performers for Juneteenth at the newly completed Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. I saw the word Juneteenth on CNN and decided to look it up and here’s the gist Juneteenth refers to June 19th,

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This month, America celebrates its Juneteenth, commemorating the day the last group of enslaved African Americans was informed they were free. Juneteenth marks the events of June 19 ...

Opal Lee is known as the Grandmother of Juneteenth. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talked with her in 2024 about her activism, and her hopes for the future.

As long as I can remember, Juneteenth was always celebrated in my house growing up. Maybe because my family on both sides are generationally Texan, and on my father’s side, those roots trace back to Jack Yates himself — the man who, alongside other ...