Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up — both on the holiday itself and on the following weekend. The holiday ...

Juneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday, arrives this week. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the ...

Juneteenth matters more than ever. June 19, 1865, marks when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce slavery's end. Though federally recognized only in 2021, Juneteenth has long been a ...