President Donald Trump raged on Thursday that there are “too many non-working holidays” in the U.S. and vowed to change it. Trump’s post came on Juneteenth, a federal holiday commemorating the end of ...

Over the past few years, Juneteenth has become more nationally recognized as a federal holiday, and that’s for good reason. While many US citizens celebrate this country’s independence from Great ...

President Donald Trump criticized the number of US holidays and said they cost the country billions. The post was made on Juneteenth, a federal holiday that Trump previously supported. Joe Biden later ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - For a third year, the 1865 Society of Pender County will host a Juneteenth celebration at the Pender County Courthouse square. Karen Molloy and Teshenna Newton with the 1865 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - WilmingtoNColor Heritage Tours is inviting the community to attend the Juneteenth Jamboree this weekend. Cedric Harrison, founder of WilmingtoNColor, visited the WECT studio ...

An 1889 rendition by architects Bullard & Bullard of the National Emancipation Monument proposed for Springfield, Illinois (Library of Congress), superimposed on a 34-star U.S. flag dating to the ...

Retired teacher and activist Dr. Opal Lee now has a Barbie line after her. For the uninitiated, Lee was a part of the movement that made Juneteenth a federal holiday.

This story was originally reported by Errin Haines of The 19th. Meet Errin and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Thursday marks the first national observance under President ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump ...

But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again. No ...