June is one of the sunniest months of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In many parts of the world, June also has the longest days of the year. The summer solstice marks the official start of ...

This weekend, the country will celebrate Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the official end of slavery in the United States, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Although ...

In his Independence Day oration, Frederick Douglass famously asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – There’s more than one Independence Day in the United States. On June 19th, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the emancipation proclamation, enslaved African ...

Juneteenth is also referred to as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day and Liberation Day. Juneteenth National Independence Day is the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King ...

African Americans throughout the nation celebrate Juneteenth, but who knows what actually happened on June 19, 1865? As the nation observes the second federal legal holiday marking the emancipation of ...