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

Juneteenth became the newest U.S. federal holiday in 2021, but it has held significance for many Black Americans for a long ...

For nearly five decades, Baltimore has been home to one of the East Coast’s largest and most prominent African American ...

Today is June 19, otherwise known as Juneteenth. It’s a day rooted in cookouts, parades and festivals. Despite the tradition and spectacle, not all Americans know ...

Celebrations around the U.S. are marking Thursday as Juneteenth, the anniversary of the day in 1865 when Union soldiers ...

June 19, 1865—when Union General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation ...

Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Pentagon to go light on commemorating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end ...

As the clock nears midnight on New Year’s Eve, many African American churches and households across the country gather not to ...

The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...

The Franklin County native was born into slavery and rose to become a prominent figure for African American education.

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...