Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, spoke at a Juneteenth celebration in Montgomery, Alabama, emphasizing the ongoing struggle for racial equality. Montgomery held multiple ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is offering free rides all day, system-wide, for Juneteenth. Juneteenth is the oldest known annual holiday marking the end of ...

Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., is this week.Observed annually on June 19, expect celebrations, festivals and closed Indiana state and federal government ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – Save a life by donating blood this Juneteenth. Juneteenth is on Thursday, June 19, it’s the oldest celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery here in the U.S. The holiday ...

UPDATE: Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens will be at the parade to kick off the event on Saturday. Organizers said Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is running for governor, will be the grand marshal. ATLANTA, Ga. ...

(RNS) — On June 19, 1865, slaves in Galveston, Texas, finally got news of their liberation — two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery. Ever since, ...

FACEBOOK PAGE. IT IS JUNETEENTH, A FEDERAL HOLIDAY RECOGNIZING THE END OF SLAVERY IN THE U.S. AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE THAN WITH LOCAL FESTIVALS? BEFORE THE WEATHER GOT NASTY, WXII 12 SARAH ...

THE FUTURE. THAT’S WHAT THIS WEEKEND’S JUNETEENTH BLOCK PARTY IN OAK PARK WILL BE CELEBRATING. AND JOINING US NOW TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT WHAT ATTENDEES CAN EXPECT AT THIS WEEK’S CELEBRATION.

U.S. stock and bond markets will be closed for Juneteenth on Thursday.Mark Felix/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images U.S. stock and bond markets are closed for the Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, June ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, introduced the Jason Max Ferdinand Singers ...