This Juneteenth, we should all take a moment to ... there was an African American president in the White House. Just like the stunning improvement in breast cancer treatment, this, too, was ...

The day became known as Juneteenth, a word created by joining ... The outlawing of slavery in 1865 did not mean black and white Americans were treated equally. Because of what was then known ...

The campaign to recognize Juneteenth as a national holiday began in Fort Worth thanks to activist Opal Lee. As a child in 1930, Lee witnessed a group of 500 white supremacists vandalize and burn ...