Juneteenth is known by many names ... Tips on Trips and Expert Picks Newsletter Travel tips, vacation ideas and more to make your next vacation stellar. Located about 40 miles north of Washington ...

When troops finally arrived to signal freedom to the state’s 250,000 slaves, celebrations broke out and Juneteenth was born! Read! Learn! Listen! Cook and Create! There are so many ways to learn and ...

Gen. Gordon Granger, this informed the people of Texas that all slaves were free. Juneteenth is the celebration of this order, with Black communities marking the occasion for decades before it ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Juneteenth is considered our nation’s second Independence Day. It’s the day Union troops freed more than 250,000 slaves in Texas two years after President Abraham ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — Juneteenth, celebrated in June across Arkansas and the nation, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Originating in Texas in 1865 when the Union ...

He travels throughout Texas and discovers how the Juneteenth holiday reveals the hope and courage that empowered the formerly enslaved and their descendants to fight for freedom in an often unjust ...

They were free. The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining the words ‘June’ and ‘nineteenth’ together, and has been celebrated every year by African-American people to ...

Summerfest and Northcott Neighborhood House are partnering to bring Juneteenth programming to the festival for the first time in its history. Summerfest and Northcott Neighborhood House are ...