A T-shirt worn by Beyoncé during a Juneteenth performance on her Cowboy Carter tour has caused a wave of criticism for the Houston-born pop star.

San Antonio wrapped up its Juneteenth celebration this weekend with a lively block party.

U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish in a quiet return to trading following the Juneteenth holiday.

Juneteenth 2025 marks 160 years since the last enslaved people were freed from Galveston, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation initially freed all slaves.

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

If you’re looking for something to do this weekend in the Alamo City, there are plenty of events to enjoy.

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Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas.

From a golf tournament to a fireworks display, there’s plenty of ways to celebrate Juneteenth in San Antonio.

Celebrate Juneteenth in San Antonio with an exciting lineup of events set to kick off soon.

Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas.

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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 inclusion initiatives.

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

Hundreds of people across San Antonio made their way to Sam Houston High School and Comanche Park on Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth five days early.

Celebrate Juneteenth in San Antonio with an exciting lineup of events set to kick off soon.

Celebrate Juneteenth in San Antonio with an exciting lineup of events set to kick off soon.

Why would a small town in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila have a long history of celebrating Juneteenth? It began after Black Seminole Indians were forced to join other tribes on the harrowing Trail of Tears in the mid-1800s.

The Equal Justice Initiative nonprofit invoked the Juneteenth holiday as it dedicated a monument that honors the people who endured and survived slavery.

Wednesday marked Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston and announced that enslaved people in the United States were free. San Antonio organizations honored the holiday with educational events, festivals and more.

Juneteenth celebrations, children’s book, Black-owned businesses, gospel choir performance & more.

A blistering heat wave stretching from the Midwest to the tip of Maine is leaving millions of people sweltering through the Juneteenth holiday.

Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19.

Many Americans are celebrating Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 when the last enslaved people in the U.S. learned they were free.

The two people who died in a mass shooting at a Juneteenth concert in Round Rock over the weekend have been identified.

Most municipal offices in San Antonio will be closed on Wednesday, June 19, in commemoration of Juneteenth.

Vaccines, veggies, and votes mark the fourth year of Juneteenth’s recognition as a federal holiday.

President Joe Biden has celebrated the Juneteenth holiday early with a concert on the White House South Lawn.

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Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston and announced that enslaved people in the United States were free.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has designated Juneteenth as a holiday for state executive branch workers.

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that county political maps in the home of Juneteenth discriminate against Black and Latino residents.

If you're squeezing in one last summer trip over the Labor Day weekend, expect lots of company.

Opal Lee, the “grandmother of Juneteenth,” is among the inductees for the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame, Gov. Greg Abbott announced on Tuesday.

From a block party in New York City to a movie screening outside of Denver, groups across the U.S. have found ways to merge Pride month and Juneteenth celebrations.

From a block party in New York City to a movie screening outside of Denver, groups across the U.S. have found ways to merge Pride month and Juneteenth celebrations.

The White House hosted their first-ever Juneteenth celebration this week. County Commissioner Tommy Calvert was in attendance.

Players tee off for a good cause at the Juneteenth Annual Golf Tournament at the Club at Sonterra.

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Although it's a federal holiday, there is still a lot more we need know about this historical event.

As an East Side community newspaper since 1995, the San Antonio Observer has not only covered events like Juneteenth. It has also taken on politics, controversies and news of interest to its expanding readership.

The Boston Red Sox are among the teams in major league baseball commemorating Juneteenth.

As we prepare to commemorate Juneteenth on Monday, women in San Antonio are reflecting on how the CROWN Act law will prohibit discrimination based on hair texture.

Americans across the country are observing the relatively new Juneteenth federal holiday with festivals, parades, cookouts and other gatherings.

Relatives of a late Black businessman who helped popularize Juneteenth in San Diego are suing a cemetery after his remains were reported missing from the family’s burial plot.

Authorities say one person is dead and at least 22 are wounded in suburban Chicago after a shooting early Sunday during a large gathering in a strip mall parking lot.

This weekend has been filled with Juneteenth events to encourage people across the San Antonio community to celebrate freedom and unity.

Since it was designated a federal holiday in 2021, Juneteenth has become more universally recognized beyond Black America.

In anticipation of extreme heat on Juneteenth, the City of San Antonio is opening 14 places for residents to stay cool.

Here are some of the events taking place around San Antonio honoring the legacy of Juneteenth.

Here is a list of city services that will be open, closed in commemoration of Juneteenth.

The driving force behind the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum has been its mission “to collect, preserve and share the cultural heritage of African-Americans in the San Antonio region,” according to its website.

President Joe Biden hosted a massive concert on the South Lawn of the White House to commemorate Juneteenth, the country’s newest federal holiday which the president said will “breathe a new life in the very essence of America.”.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will host a Juneteenth concert in a “celebration of community, culture and music.”.

Eva Longoria’s Flamin’ Hot, SAAACAM’s Juneteenth gospel performance, a murder mystery event series, Fredericksburg Craft Beer Festival and more.

A Texas woman who helped make Juneteenth a federal holiday has become the second Black Texan honored with a portrait on the walls of the state’s Senate chamber.

We're featuring local, Black-owned businesses from a cheesesteak food truck to a BBQ shop on the East side in honor of the Juneteenth holiday.

A new study on breast cancer mortality rates shows that a lack of health care access still exists for Black communities.

On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill officially making Juneteenth a federal holiday. It’s the first new federal holiday since 1983, when Martin Luther King Jr. Day was added.

The rejection rate of mail-in ballots in Texas went from less than 2% to more than 12% under SB 1

As the United States marks only the second federally recognized Juneteenth, Black Americans living overseas have embraced the holiday as a day of reflection and an opportunity to educate people in their host countries on Black history.

Thousands gathered on Saturday to celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday that marks the day in 1865 when Texas slaves learned they had been freed.

The effort to officially celebrate Juneteenth as a paid holiday has faced skepticism inside legislatures that have largely chosen symbolic gestures to recognize the holiday while curtailing certain conversations on race and racism.

The San Antonio African-American Community Archive and Museum has partnered with IKEA for a new mural-style exhibit celebrating Juneteenth that is displayed inside the IKEA Live Oak location.

Here’s a list of some of the events going on in the San Antonio area in June.

A bill that would allow state employees to take the Juneteenth holiday or any other day instead of Confederate Memorial Day has unanimously passed the South Carolina Senate.

When she was 12, her childhood home was burned to the ground by white neighbors on June 19, 1939, because her family was Black.

It’s almost time for Independence Day and that means the retail sale of fireworks has officially reopened in Texas.

June may almost be over, but there's no shortage of quirky national day events to add to your agenda.

Now that Juneteenth is officially a federal holiday, many celebrations were underway this weekend in the City of San Antonio and across the nation.

Juneteenth bill signed into law making the historical date a national holiday

Parades, picnics and lessons in history are all part of Juneteenth events in the U.S. The day is carrying even more significance after Congress and President Joe Biden created a federal holiday to commemorate the end of slavery.

Black Americans are rejoicing after President Joe Biden signed legislation establishing Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

Metro Health has issued a heat advisory for Juneteenth weekend, as temperatures are expected to reach between 97-99 degrees and 104 degrees on Monday in the San Antonio area.

Juneteenth is coming up, this weekend in fact -- and for those who might be unfamiliar, the holiday commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.

While many Americans have a vast array of knowledge about Juneteenth, others don’t know as much about the holiday and the history behind it.

The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.

The United States will soon have a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.

President Joe Biden has signed legislation Thursday establishing a new federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery, saying he believes it will go down as one of the greatest honors he has as president.

The bill was passed in both chambers with wide support.

Most of us are aware of Juneteenth, in that it exists, but there is so much history to know about the celebration.

It’s an occasion that’s recognized in most states and the District of Columbia, but it’s not as of yet a federal holiday.

The Senate has passed a bill that would make Juneteenth, or June 19th, a federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery.

The 90-minute event will feature community leaders discussing the Juneteenth holiday and what it means to them personally, as well as the relevance to the organizations they run.

San Antonio non-profit Black Freedom Factory is on a mission to cultivate racial equity across the city. The organization plans to hold an event Thursday known as the Future is Freedom: Juneteenth celebration.

Did you realize that Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States?

“Ode to Juneteenth,” a freed slave’s story of celebration and hope, will be showcased by the Witte Museum on Freedom Day, June 9.

The connection between baseball and Juneteenth might seem thin at first, but the two are closely connected.

On Wednesday, June 9 at 7 p.m., KSAT 12 anchors Isis Romero and Steve Spriester will host Trinity University History Professor Carey Latimore for the livestreamed town hall.

This year marks the 156th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day enslaved Texans were officially proclaimed free, two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.

Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating the day in 1865 that all enslaved Black people learned they had been freed, is often celebrated by families across the nation -- with events including cookouts, parades or community festivals.

He courted Hispanic voters near Miami and Black voters in Atlanta. “This is an unusual name for an organization whose ideology and tactics are right now destroying many Black lives,” Trump charged. On Friday morning, at his golf club in Doral, Florida, Trump tried to blunt Biden’s support among Hispanic voters at a “Latinos for Trump” roundtable. But a Monmouth University poll also conducted this month found Biden well ahead of Trump among Latino voters in the state, 58% to 32%. Hispanic voters in Florida tend to be somewhat more Republican-leaning than Hispanic voters nationwide because of the state’s Cuban American population, which Trump acknowledged several times in his remarks.

A person holds up a sign advocating for defunding the police as people gather to mark Juneteenth, Friday, June 19, 2020, in St. Louis. An outgrowth of the Defund the Police movement, the WFP Justice Fund is led by the Working Families Party and the Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project. The result, they said, would be a shift in local government budgets and public safety systems around the country. For example, in Chicago's 2019 elections, WFP helped increase the council's Progressive Caucus to 18 seats out of the 50 total. In Washington, D.C., city council candidate Janeese Lewis George, backed by the Working Families Party, toppled an incumbent Democrat on a defunding platform and is in line to claim the seat in November.

FILE - In this June 19, 2020, file photo, protesters wear protective masks as they march after a Juneteenth rally outside the Brooklyn Museum, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A loose network of Facebook groups that took root across the country in April to organize protests over coronavirus stay-at-home orders has become a hub of misinformation and conspiracies theories that have pivoted to a variety of new targets. Their latest: Black Lives Matter and the nationwide protests against racial injustice. (AP Photo/John Minchillo

(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)LOS ANGELES The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called Lift Every Voice and Sing has resurrected a beacon of hope during nationwide protests. The NAACP dubbed Lift Every Voice and Sing as the Black national anthem in 1919. Sharpton said the ability of Lift Every Voice and Sing enduring several generations speaks volumes. The NFL will play Lift Every Voice and Sing" before each game during Week 1, a person familiar with the discussions told The Associated Press. There's always been the controversy about race being involved in the national anthem.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in an early Monday shooting in North Carolina's largest city, police said, while five others were hit by vehicles. The shooting happened at an impromptu block party" that was a continuation of Juneteenth celebrations, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Deputy Chief Johnny Jennings told reporters. Another victim was pronounced dead at a hospital; no further information about the second fatality was released. The conditions of the seven people wounded in the shooting weren't immediately clear. Juneteenth, for which celebrations started Friday, commemorates when the last enslaved African Americans learned they were free 155 years ago.

Years after her shocking exit from Sleepy Hollow, Nicole Beharie is opening up about the circumstances surrounding her departure. Sleepy Hollow returned for a fourth season without Beharie, but was ultimately cancelled. In an interview with the New York Timeswhile promoting her new film, Miss Juneteenth, Beharie admitted that she's shied away from speaking about her exit from Sleepy Hollow, saying, "I never wanted to talk about this until the resentment and bitterness was out of my system." Beharie in 'Miss Juneteenth.' RELATED CONTENT:Nicole Beharie on the Unexpected Timeliness of 'Miss Juneteenth''Sleepy Hollow': Abbie Gives Ichabod Dating Pointers!