The Houston Juneteenth Urban Takeover returns for its fourth year with new parties and after-hours events, starting June 20. Here's what you need to know about the celebrations. How it started ...

On Juneteenth Metro Houston buses, rail, park and ride, Curb2curb and HOV/HOT lanes will run normal hours. Metro Houston RideStores and lost and found will be closed.

This Juneteenth, one of the first communities created by newly freed Black Texans, Freedmen’s Town, in the Fourth Ward of Houston, is celebrating by building on what they started. On Thursday ...

HOUSTON – Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, commemorates the enforced end of slavery in Galveston on June 19, 1865. The holiday celebrates freeing the last enslaved African American people ...

HOUSTON Emancipation Park In 1872, a group led by the Rev. Jack Yates, a former slave, raised $1,000 to buy 10 acres of land for their Juneteenth celebration in Houston. They named it Emancipation ...

Juneteenth: See photos as Houston kicks off week of celebration Mr Juneteenth 2024, Devon Pruitt, 14, is silhouetted as he passes by a mural on Emancipation Avenue Elizabeth Conley/Staff photographer ...

This year mark's the 150th anniversary of Houston's Juneteenth celebration in Emancipation Park. The two-day event will take place on Saturday, June 18, and Sunday, June 19.

Dancer Prescylia Mae, of Houston, performs during a dedication ceremony for the massive mural "Absolute Equality" in downtown Galveston, Texas, Saturday, June 19, 2021. The dedication of the mural, ...

A participant in Mayor Turner's 9th Annual Juneteenth Parade waves to the public from the vehicle she’s riding taking relief of the sun under a large pamela hat, Saturday, June 18, 2022, in Houston.

Michael Lewis sells a shirt to Qiana O’Leary, Ph.D., during the Celebrate Freedom - Juneteenth Family Fun Day event Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Emancipation Park in Houston.

As a Texan, Juneteenth is a holiday I feel deeply connected to. It was in Galveston, Texas, about 45 minutes away from my hometown Houston, that Major General Gordon Granger declared that all ...

Admission: Tickets can be found on Primary Paint Party. Emancipation Park's Juneteenth Celebration Meal Giveaway Families can enjoy meals from H-E-B, the Houston Food Bank, and Lucille's 1913.