Lubbock will mark the Juneteenth holiday Monday with a celebration capping off a long weekend of events that featured a pageant, parade, music and other festivities. In Mackenzie Park at 6 p.m. Monday ...

Lubbockites marked Juneteenth with a long weekend full of festivities and celebrations featuring a parade, fireworks, good food and music and honors for outstanding citizens. The RISE UP Juneteenth ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - In 2021, Congress passed a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. President Joe Biden signed it into office on June 18th of that year. The holiday was established to honor ...

The Lubbock Juneteenth Committee hosted a senior breakfast and parade on Saturday with floats and music traveling from Broadway and Avenue A to Mackenzie Park. After the parade the party moved to the ...

What I remember about the Juneteenth of my girlhood is the sound of music and how our parents could cha-cha all night long. I remember Mr. Stroke’s face in the light of the fire pit at night and how ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Americans are preparing to observe the newest federal holiday on Sunday: Juneteenth, in honor of the June 19, 1865, occasion on which enslaved men and women in Galveston, Texas, found out they were ...

Juneteenth marks the day when, in 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, discovered they were finally free from being mere property. This took place more than two years after President Abraham ...