Music festivals, parades, marches and more commemorate Juneteenth across America. Emancipation Day. Freedom Day. Jubilee Day.

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 ...

The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they ...