The 18th and Vine float at the 13th annual Juneteenth Heritage Parade in 2024. Juneteenth, the national holiday commemorating the end of slavery, first touched down in Kansas City in 1980, according ...

Juneteenth is Thursday, June 19. Americans will celebrate the day 170 years ago when about a quarter billion of the last enslaved Black people in the country were finally told they were free.

ST. LOUIS – The Missouri History Museum is celebrating Juneteenth with a special event dedicated to freedom, resilience, and Black joy. Juneteenth marks the day when the last enslaved people in ...

The Missouri Historical Society is hosting free and educational programming for all ages in commemoration of Juneteenth. The holiday, also known as Freedom Day, celebrates the anniversary of June 19, ...

Deon Baskett, left, and Everett Hayes Jr. represent Black cowboys in the parade during Fayette's 25th annual Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 21, 2025, at Howard County Courthouse in Fayette, ...

Multiple mid-Missouri organizations will host several events Monday and Wednesday in celebration of Juneteenth. Juneteenth recognizes when enslaved African Americans learned of their emancipation in ...

Mayors in Kansas City and St. Louis have ordered studies into the impact of slavery and segregation on present-day inequities. Missouri had 114,931 enslaved people on the eve of the Civil War. As ...

Celebrations of freedom for enslaved Black people have been held around Missouri under different names and on different dates since they gained their freedom. Now, with the federal Juneteenth holiday ...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Missouri City Juneteenth Celebration Foundation, a nonprofit that organizes family-oriented Juneteenth events in the area. Juneteenth ...

Black culture is famous for an assortment of contributions to Missouri history, with jazz and barbecue being prominent examples. Now, Shawn Edwards says it's time to recognize those contributions in ...

In 2021, Angela Hagenbach (center right) and a group of close friends came together to create the Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston (BAAC), a nonprofit that uncovers and documents the lives ...

A Republican candidate for Missouri's secretary of state has doubled down on her disparaging remarks about Juneteenth and Black Americans who "do not like" the country. Valentina Gomez, a staunch ...