Commissioner Myles Davidson said Juneteenth will make it onto Oklahoma County’s list of holidays next year, despite claims he ...

An Oklahoma County Commissioner is setting the record straight after being at the center of a short-live controversy Tuesday ...

Opal Lee, known to many as "The Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not participate in this year’s Walk for Freedom march due to a recent hospitalization.

Commissioner says Juneteenth omission was a 'clerical error' Tsunami alerts issued for Alaska, West Coast after magnitude 8.8 ...

The Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries. In 2021, President Joe Biden designated it a federal holiday ...

Juneteenth is one of America’s oldest holidays and is observed each year on June 19 to mark the official end of slavery in the US. The day, which gets its name from combining June and 19, has ...

Juneteenth marks the day -- June 19, 1865, when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free -- two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and two ...

Juneteenth is the 11th federal holiday in the US. As with other federal holidays, banks, schools and government companies (like post offices) are expected to be closed.

Juneteenth is a paid holiday for state employees in Texas, New York, Virginia, Washington, and now Nevada as well. Hundreds of companies give workers the day off.

On June 19, Americans will celebrate Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the day news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Texas, with block parties, cookouts and educational events. While ...

Juneteenth — a holiday celebrating the emancipation of all American slaves on June 19, 1865 — isn't well known outside the Black community, but historian and UCLA professor Brenda Stevenson ...

Juneteenth at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, 315 E. Warren Avenue. There will be performances, art, a treasure hunt for kids, an afterglow celebration and more.