Ashé Cultural Arts Center, the RTA and other groups unveiled a new mural at the Canal Street Ferry as part of the event.

Louisiana now allows $81 holiday food gifts to public employees, including inspectors and mayors, under new ethics law ...

With Juneteenth crowds behind us and a long July 4th holiday weekend ahead, Disneyland is riding the summer roller coaster of crowd booms and busts. But amidst the heat and hustle, there are also plen ...

Over the course of several hours, before most of the city even finished their morning coffee, Lens photographer Gus Bennett ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WHNT) — 805 After Five featuring The Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Karmessa has been rescheduled to June 26. The rescheduled event will include a special Juneteenth-themed celebration ...

Kids played in bouncy houses and took pictures with llamas. Food trucks ranging from New Orleans cuisine to Southern barbecue set up shop in the nearby street. Live music was slated for the afternoon.

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

A panel of three federal appellate judges has ruled that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in each of the state’s public school classrooms is unconstitutional.

NEW ORLEANS — There are several events in New Orleans for people to celebrate Juneteenth. On the New Orleans Lakefront, a celebration is being hosted by attorney Juan Lafonta that is free and ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s.

In New Orleans, slavery was abolished through a constitutional council meeting on May 11, 1864, amidst the Civil War. Black New Orleanians gathered in Congo Square — where Juneteenth celebrations are ...

Farmers, cattle ranchers and hotel and restaurant managers breathed a sigh of relief last week when President Donald Trump ordered a pause to immigration raids that were disrupting those ...