Today is Juneteenth. Here's a look at the celebrations, free museum days and what's open and closed in the Boston area.

Juneteenth was commemorated across the country on Thursday, including in Boston at Roxbury Heritage State Park.

While celebrated for generations, Juneteenth only became a federal holiday in 2021. With its federal status, there are some ...

Boston police have identified the man who was shot and killed in a car on Juneteenth as 21-year-old Hyde Park resident Teo ...

On Juneteenth 2025, the day commemorating the delayed emancipation of enslaved Americans in Texas in 1865, Rev. Torli H. Krua, founder of the Free Liberia Movement and Universal Human Rights ...

Across the nation, many people spent the day celebrating Juneteenth, which commemorates the official end of slavery in the ...

The recently minted federal holiday commemorates the day slavery fell in Galveston, Texas — one of the last places Black people remained enslaved in the U.S. after the Civil War.

While the tone was celebratory, many of those present said this year’s Juneteenth felt especially urgent — not just as a remembrance of emancipation but as a stand against efforts to suppress Black ...

President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in ...

President Donald Trump did not issue any official statement on Juneteenth but posted on Truth Social about "non-working ...