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A young East Texas girl is shaping her future and educating others through the legacy of Juneteenth. This weekend, 8-year-old ...
Wendy’s CEO is leaving. An analyst hopes new leadership will ‘get more serious’ about a restaurant overhaul.
Fort Worth-based artist Tatyana Alanis’ latest collaboration is deeply personal. Alanis, who moved to Texas in 2009, is known ...
The Texas Rangers Youth Academy 18U Scout Team last weekend claimed a decisive victory in the inaugural Bob Gibson Juneteenth ...
Juneteenth is a celebration for all Americans because it marks a pivotal moment in the United States’ journey toward living ...
On June 19, the staff of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board observed Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the liberation of ...
Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...
It wasn’t a celebration of history.” For many African Americans, the farther away from Texas that they grew up increased the likelihood they didn’t have big Juneteenth celebrations regularly.
On Juneteenth, Freedom Came With Strings Attached June 18, 2024 Prints and Photographs Collection, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the University of Texas at Austin Share full article ...
Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Minnesota and others observed Juneteenth years before it became a federal holiday. JUNETEENTH 2024: Where to celebrate in Houston and Galveston ...
Books Annette Gordon-Reed Explores the Tangled Meaning of Juneteenth In her new book ‘On Juneteenth,’ the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian takes on the Texas holiday that has gone national.
As William H. Wiggins explains in his essay in the book Juneteenth Texas, “The 1936 Juneteenth celebration attracted an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 celebrants to Dallas to celebrate the State ...