Lee, who's from Texas and known by many as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was added to the list of "incredible heroines of their time," in Mattel's words, who are featured in the Barbie Inspiring ...

Mattel is releasing a new Barbie honoring Opal Lee, 99, also known as the “grandmother” of Juneteenth. Developing the doll ...

Often called "America's second Independence Day" or "Black Independence Day," Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. It is celebrated annually every June 19 and is the first ...

For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — ...

Sarah Bird’s black-and-white photos of Texas Juneteenth rodeos on view at Odessa’s Gertrude Bruce Cultural Center through Feb ...

A Juneteenth mural in Galveston is located at the site of the issuance of General Order No. 3, which demanded “absolute equality” between enslaved Texans and former slave owners after the Emancipation ...

For the first time since 1983, a new federal holiday has been created. After passing the House and Senate earlier this week, President Joe Biden signed into law Thursday a bill designating Juneteenth ...