Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking ...

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Several events through the weekend are planned to celebrate the holiday Thursday. We look back at its history here.

GALVESTON, Texas – Former President Joe Biden will be in Galveston Thursday as a dignitary for a Juneteenth event. Galveston County Sheriff Jimmy Fullen confirmed to KPRC 2’s Bill Barajas that the ...

The church, located at 2013 Broadway, was built in 1863, although slaves began worshipping on the property in 1848. In June ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Opal Lee, the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," will not lead this year's Walk for Freedom in Fort Worth, her granddaughter said.

An example of what some might count among the many singular oddities that, taken in total, form the aggregate oddity called ...

GALVESTON, Texas — Former President Joe Biden might be a special guest at a Juneteenth celebration on Galveston Island. It ...

GALVESTON, Texas - FOX 26 has learned former President Joe Biden is coming to Galveston as part of Juneteenth. According to ...

The release says the Park Board held their meetings on May 12 and May 22, during which they violated the Open Meetings Act.

The city of Galveston Tuesday announced significant road closures in areas surrounding Reedy Chapel African Methodist ...