HOUSTON — Juneteenth celebrates the historical day of June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

With Juneteenth coming up this Thursday, here's four places in the US putting on a range of events commemorating the holiday.

Fifteen years after the Pac-12 tried to woo the Longhorns, the conference is circling back for a different kind of Texas ...