ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

JACKSONVILLE — A bill that passed Thursday in the Illinois House could make Juneteenth a state-recognized holiday. Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day and Freedom Day, commemorates the ...

More than 1,000 people watched Lake County’s inaugural Juneteenth parade, and over 3,500 participated in the Juneteenth Lake County Parade and Festival Saturday in Waukegan, celebrating the June ...

Juneteenth festivities are rooted in cookouts and picnics. Originally celebrated as Black Americans' true Independence Day, outdoor events allowed for large, raucous reunions among formerly ...

The purpose of Juneteenth was always a celebration of emancipation, of the Black community’s emergence out of our gloomy past. But it was also an implicit warning that what had been done could ...

Juneteenth, deeply rooted in Galveston, Texas, history, marks the day in 1865 when Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived with U.S. troops to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation and bring freedom to ...

Trump's 2025 Truth Social post did not mention Juneteenth. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked by reporters earlier in the day whether Trump was expected to commemorate Juneteenth.

In an apparent critique of Juneteenth, Trump said in a June 19 Truth Social post that non-working holidays are costing billions of dollars to keep businesses closed. Private companies are not ...

User @blaq.monalisa shared a video she took inside an Atlanta Kroger grocery store, which revealed what she thought was a “bulls*t” collection of Juneteenth cookie cakes. The cakes, tagged ...

Is Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2025? Yes, Juneteenth is a federal holiday in 2025, according to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. It is one of 11 federal holidays observed every year.