HOUSTON — A special "Juneteenth in July" celebration featuring Grammy-winning artists and a musical tribute to the late Rep.

The Houston Juneteenth Urban Takeover returns for its fourth year with new parties and after-hours events, starting June 20. Here's what you need to know about the celebrations. How it started ...

Juneteenth: See photos as Houston kicks off week of celebration Mr Juneteenth 2024, Devon Pruitt, 14, is silhouetted as he passes by a mural on Emancipation Avenue Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer ...

Michael Lewis sells a shirt to Qiana O’Leary, Ph.D., during the Celebrate Freedom - Juneteenth Family Fun Day event Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Emancipation Park in Houston.

Michael Lewis sells a shirt to Qiana O’Leary, Ph.D., during the Celebrate Freedom - Juneteenth Family Fun Day event Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Emancipation Park in Houston.

This Juneteenth, one of the first communities created by newly freed Black Texans, Freedmen’s Town, in the Fourth Ward of Houston, is celebrating by building on what they started. On Thursday ...

HOUSTON – Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the enforced end of slavery in Galveston on June 19, 1865. The holiday celebrates freeing the last enslaved African American people ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021 and a state holiday in 1980. But here in the Gulf Coast region, locals have been celebrating since 1865.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, will be observed Wednesday. People nationwide are preparing to celebrate the federal holiday, which honors the emancipation of the last enslaved African ...

For one Houston area family, Juneteenth is part of their family history. It is the day Eugene Howard’s ancestors were freed. He calls it a Juneteenth Legacy. Howard’s great-grandfather, Paul ...

Juneteenth was officially declared a federal holiday on June 17, 2021. This year, Juneteenth will be observed on Wednesday, June 19.