Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. Celebrations include cookouts, ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and ...

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President Donald Trump says he has finalized a trade agreement with the United Kingdom, first announced in May, that is ...