06/19/2026
Today, Juneteenth honors not only a historic day, but the ongoing story of resilience, heritage, and a story still being written.
Juneteenth, now a National holiday, traces back to June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved people were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
From that moment, a powerful legacy began, one shaped not only by freedom, but by the strength of communities who built lives, traditions, and history from it.