It is important to recognize where you've been, you know, stand firmly in the truth, and then go forward,” said Lubbock ...

Lubbock Juneteenth continued its weekend-long Rise Up celebration Saturday with a parade and Freedom Fest for the Lubbock ...

Teams competed answering questions Friday evening. On Saturday, a free festival will be held in MacKenzie Park.

Lubbock’s Juneteenth Committee hosted its kickoff event for Rise Up Weekend, a three-day celebration of Black emancipation, ...

Corey Powell, co-chair of the Lubbock Juneteenth committee, says the freedoms fought and died for many years ago should never ...

The Juneteenth holiday commemorates the day when Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and announced that over 250,000 remaining enslaved people in Texas were ...

His appreciation for Juneteenth led him to Lubbock’s RiseUP organization, where he has served as co-chair for the past four years with one goal in mind: to raise more awareness for the now ...

According to a 2024 Congressional Research Service report, at least 30 states and the District of Columbia have designated ...

Juneteenth celebrations took place across the U.S., commemorating the day in 1865 when enslaved Black people in Texas learned ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two ...