PHOTOS: America Celebrates Juneteenth for the First Time as a New National Holiday

Americans celebrated Juneteenth on Saturday for the first time since President Joe Biden signed a bill Thursday designating it as a new national holiday. June 19th, 1865 marks the date — about two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation — that slaves in Galveston, Texas finally got the news that they […]