Juneteenth 2025 will be celebrated on Thursday, June 19th. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States and is a day of celebration, reflection, and education.
Juneteenth (short for “June Nineteenth”) marks the anniversary of the day that news of the abolition of slavery finally reached Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. This was more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.