From trash pickup and grocery store hours to public transit and mail delivery, here’s what’s open and closed around Philadelphia for Juneteenth on Thursday, June 19.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Juneteenth celebrations have been scaled back this year due to funding shortfalls as companies and municipalities across the ...

Kennett Square heralds itself as the mushroom capital of the world. But what many people don't know is that it was a crucial stop for freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad.

Union Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger and his troops arrived at Galveston on June 19, 1865, with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. That was more than two months after ...

Unable to operate Downtown this year, The Western Pennsylvania Juneteenth Celebration relocates to Shadyside's Mellon Park ...

We don’t do kings here’: Photos from Saturday’s march Millions of people took part nationwide in Saturday’s […] ...

New Jersey can have a grand jury examine allegations of clergy sexually abusing children, the state’s Supreme Court ruled ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ordered a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded from a state regulation requiring health ...

A butterfly flits past the window at the Castlewood Canyon Visitor Center, where dozens of volunteers have gathered to learn about Colorado’s declining butterfly population and how they can do ...

A new kind of mRNA vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University could be cheaper to produce and offer a greater level of immunity ...