Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, although it is not universally observed. Oklahoma County observes it, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

President Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. On this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the president kept silent.

The affected holidays are Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Juneteenth and Veterans Day. They will no longer be designated paid ...

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 ...

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 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.

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