CARBONDALE (WSIL) -- Today marks the day in 1865 when a group of African American slaves learned they were free. A handful of people gathered at Woodlawn Cemetery in Carbondale Friday afternoon to ...

COLUMBIA - The United States Exercise Tiger Foundation honored Black veterans and those who died in conflict at a wreath-laying ceremony Wednesday morning as part of the Juneteenth holiday. The ...

The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. More than 200,000 men are listed as a part of the regiment at the National Archives.

The U.S. Colored Troops were a regiment of mostly Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. A number of those soldiers are buried in the National Cemetery in Raleigh. There will be ...

A flag flies on a float during the 45th annual Juneteenth National Independence Day celebrations in Galveston, Texas, on June 15, 2024. (Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images) June 19 marks Juneteenth, a ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 17: An attendee adjusts his Juneteenth-themed hat during a neighborhood Juneteenth festival on June 17, 2023 in Washington, DC. Two years ago, President Joe Biden signed ...

The Juneteenth Freedom Walk at Louisiana State University of Alexandria held Thursday was both a remembrance and celebration of how far the Black community has come from bondage to freedom and ...

In honor of Juneteenth, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society will host a multi-part wreath-laying ceremony at Harriet Chapel and at the Museum of the Ironworker in Catoctin Furnace Village near ...

West Potomac Park transformed into a pop-up church this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth. It was a fitting setting for the holiday because church was an important place to enslaved people in Texas and ...

Children stand close to the The 313+ Ancestors Speak Project monument before it is unveiled in the cemetery of Siloam-Hope First Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth on Sunday, June 18, 2023. The monument ...