AUSTIN, Texas — For the fourth year in a row, Juneteenth will be celebrated as a federal holiday in the U.S. The date honors the moment when the last group of enslaved people in the country learned ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds gathered in East Austin on Thursday to celebrate the city’s annual Juneteenth Parade and Festival. The event commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved people in Galveston, ...

Thursday morning rears a bright and warm beginning to the 27th annual Austin Central Texas Juneteenth parade. Music hits the streets as a unified white linen band trickles down East Martin Luther King ...

After the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, thousands of African Americans remained enslaved in Texas until Major General Gordon Granger and Union Army troops arrived in Galveston on June ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas Legislature would allow Texans to buy fireworks in celebration of Juneteenth. House Bill 554 by state Rep. Terri Leo Wilson (R-Galveston) would let fireworks ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed legislation Tuesday that invests $50 million into clinical research of ibogaine -- a naturally occurring psychedelic substance that could treat post-traumatic stress ...

The range of Black creative expression hailing from Texas should come as no surprise. After all, those who were enslaved in this state learned that slavery had been abolished more than two years after ...

AUSTIN, Texas Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the country reconsider their support for diversity, equity and ...

The official Juneteenth holiday is on June 19, but many Central Texas celebrations will take place this weekend. After the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, thousands of African Americans ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Juneteenth is coming up June 19, with various events and celebrations happening across Central Texas. The Central Texas Juneteenth Parade, organized by the Greater East Austin Youth ...