Boston's Juneteenth celebration will be held on Saturday, June 21 at Franklin Park. Picnics, barbecues, music and dancing are planned at Shattuck Picnic Grove and all around the park.

As Americans marked the weekend heading into Monday’s Juneteenth holiday in varying ways, the mood in Greater Boston was decidedly a celebratory one.. Deemed a state holiday in 2020 and a ...

Boston celebrated Juneteenth on Sunday with a parade through Roxbury, as the community commemorated the day when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas finally learned of their freedom more than ...

Juneteenth Boston: Black Joy. Hosted by the New Democracy Coalition in collaboration with the City of Boston, Juneteenth Boston celebrates Black history, democracy, and freedom.

Juneteenth commemorates the day enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas, were told they were free in 1865. Read more on Boston.com.

17 Dance Parties, Protests, Poetry Readings and More to Mark Juneteenth in Boston Tune into a Zoom webinar or take to the streets. By Alyssa Vaughn · 6/17/2020, 5:09 p.m.

Traditionally, community barbecues and block parties have been organized to mark the historic day. One of the first large Juneteenth events in Boston began in the 1990s when a group of Roxbury ...

Jaylen Brown’s summer has been anything but quiet. From hosting 741 performances outside TD Garden to leading his bridge program at MIT, the Celtic star immersed himself in the Boston community. He ...

BOSTON (CBS) - Juneteenth, a blend of the words June and nineteenth, honors June 19th, 1865. It's the day General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas to announce the end of the Civil War and ...

Embrace Boston is hosting the Embrace Ideas Festival this week, designed to coincide with other Juneteenth celebrations. “Embrace [Boston’s] work is to think about the ways in which monuments ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom. The order provided by Union Major General Gordon Granger abolished slavery in the country ...