What happens to a holiday when its most beloved champion cannot join the celebration? On Thursday, hundreds still showed up ...

Juneteenth celebrations combine remembrance with joy, highlighted by one family's history and national recognition of the ...

Opal Lee was 89 when she began her campaign to make the day a federal holiday. At 98. she's still an inspiration ...

Opal Lee's Walk for Freedom wrapped up in Fort Worth Thursday morning, but it was missing the person who started it all.

Numerous events are scheduled across Southern California in celebration, including a walk in Pacoima honoring the woman dubbed the "Grandmother of Juneteenth." ...

The Walk for Freedom is held on Juneteenth to mark the two-and-a-half-year delay between the Emancipation Proclamation and ...

We revisit host Peter O'Dowd's 2022 conversation with Opal Lee, the woman who spent decades walking and advocating for Juneteenth to be recognized as a national holiday. This segment airs on June 19, ...

The first Juneteenth celebration took place in 1866, one year after Granger’s order. Some referenced the holiday as “Jubilee Day” or “Freedom Day” and gathered in homes, parks and communities to ...

Jun. 19 is Juneteenth, a time to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On this day in 1865, more than 200,000 enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the ...

Spontaneous Juneteenth celebrations emerged almost immediately. Celebrants referred to the day as “Emancipation Day,” “Freedom Day,” “Juneteenth” and “ Jubilee Day .” The latter title alluded to the ...

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021, and one woman who helped make this happen is Ms. Opal Lee. She’s a mother, a ...

The United States’ newest federal holiday, celebrated annually on June 19, has quickly become its most puzzling one. Four ...