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Composer, pianist, educator and bandleader Jason Moran announced on social media that he is no longer the artistic director for jazz. Moran joined the Kennedy Center in 2011.
This year will be the first Juneteenth under the second Trump administration, which has banned DEI initiatives including Black history content.
The Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy is hosting its annual Juneteenth Fest with an urgent theme this year.
The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.
The Community Artists’ Collective is set to bring a special Juneteenth celebration to Houston featuring art and music.
Many Americans celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed.
Here's a look back at the history of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and how it's celebrated.
The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War.