Communities across Northeast Louisiana marked Juneteenth with parades, music and reflection. In Rayville, the theme “Because of Them, We Can” inspired a celebration filled with floats, dancers and ...

Local historian Mikal Barnes is helping to illuminate the significance of Juneteenth as Freedom Day, and is encouraging ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War. It declared that all ...

Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered free following the arrival of Union troops. The Civil War had ended on ...

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June 19, 1865, can be described as a day of freedom. It's the day enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free ...