Thousands of people braved sweltering heat and threatening rain clouds on Friday afternoon, to attend the annual free festival and concert at Emancipation Park.

While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing through informal networks, rumors and sometimes from slaveholders themselves.

Houston has celebrated Juneteenth at Emancipation Park since 1872. Here's what's happening at this year's event, from music to a first-ever domino tournament.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil War reenactors participate in a Juneteenth celebration June 20, 2014, at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum. Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States ...

St. Philips Moravian Church and the Salem Congregation celebrated Juneteenth with a reenactment of the Worship in Celebration of Freedom when the Emancipation Proclamation was read at the church on

It goes by many names. Whether you call it Emancipation Day, Freedom Day or the country's second Independence Day, Juneteenth is one of the most important anniversaries in our nation's history. On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, who had fought for ...

After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons. During the war, many of these soldiers faced torture and reenslavement by the Confederate army.

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There’s more to celebrate on Jan. 1 than the start of a new year. It’s the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation ...

Billionaire hedge funder and art collector Kenneth Griffin has revealed that he was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both signed by president Abraham Lincoln, that sold on Thursday at ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Friday is Juneteenth, which commemorates Emancipation Day, the end of slavery, as the final enforcement of the “Emancipation Proclamation” was ordered in Texas on this day in 1865.