Former President Joe Biden traveled to Galveston, Texas, on Thursday to celebrate Juneteenth, a federal holiday he enshrined with a stroke of a pen while in office, and took a handful of shots at ...

Biden's act of making Juneteenth a federal holiday marked the first federal holiday established since Ronald Reagan made Martin Luther King Jr Day a holiday in 1983. During a Juneteenth commemoration ...

Officers and crowds wait outside Reedy Chapel in Galveston, Texas, for the Juneteenth church service on June 19, 2025. (Cameron Thompson / Courthouse News) GALVESTON, Texas (CN) — Even in the Texas in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Juneteenth is now officially a federal holiday and federal employees will have Friday, June 18 off to recognize it. President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence ...

Black Americans rejoiced Thursday after President Joe Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday, but some said that, while they appreciated the recognition at a time of racial reckoning in America, more ...

Former President Joe Biden celebrated Juneteenth on Thursday at a historic Black church in Texas, calling for Americans to come together to push the country forward. “I don’t come here today to only ...

During an appearance during a Juneteenth commemoration at Galveston’s historic Reedy Chapel AME Church, former President Joe Biden took the opportunity to call for Americans to unite during uncertain ...

The United States is commemorating the end of slavery with a new federal holiday. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Thursday to make Juneteenth, or June 19, the 12th federal holiday. The ...