For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history's darkest chapters with joy — such as parades or ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

After the cookout and cultural celebrations, Americans must complete the work of Juneteenth to achieve equality for all.

In newly formed Black congregations, the famous abolitionist and others were able to live out their faith—and affirm their ...

At least 37 former slaves freed by Abraham Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation are among people buried at Topeka's Ritchie Cemetery.

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Mhlauli described the state of her husband's body during testimony she gave at the start of the inquiry in the city of ...

This Q&A seeks to answer some common questions about reparations for Black people in the United States as a remedy for ...

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...