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

The Alabama House of Representatives passed a bill that would make Juneteenth a state holiday. State offices wouldn't close ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

The event honors Al Edwards, the former representative who advocated for Juneteenth to become a state holiday in Texas. Spend the day at the Juneteenth Family Fun Day at Reedy Chapel AME ...

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