A House committee Wednesday approved a bill making Juneteenth an Alabama state holiday after the sponsor removed a provision that would have required state employees to choose between that holiday ...

An Alabama State House committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would make Juneteenth a state holiday. The House State ...

But under the bill as filed, the original bill, Juneteenth would have been a second-class holiday. Alabama state offices would not close on Juneteenth as they do for other state holidays.

Juneteenth commemorates the pivotal day of June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Texas were freed, marking their ...

The 157-year-old holiday, the name of which is a combination of "June" and "nineteenth," commemorates the day in 1865 when a group of enslaved individuals in Galveston, Texas, finally learned they ...

A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...