17-year-old Ari Kennedy designed the logo for the Greater Lafayette Juneteenth celebration. Kennedy, a self-taught graphic designer, also runs his own clothing line. Kennedy's artistic talents are ...

It's the 156th anniversary of Juneteenth. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Juneteenth was officially made a national holiday. and just in time for Saturday's 156th anniversary of the day that ...

(AP) - 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.

Today is Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when U.S. Army troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, to inform some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free. They were enforcing the Emancipation ...