Juneteenth 2025 can be celebrated on Thursday, June nineteenth. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African People in the US and is a day of celebration, reflection, and training.
Juneteenth (brief for “June Nineteenth”) marks the anniversary of the day that information of the abolition of slavery lastly reached Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. This was greater than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.