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

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.

This was historic because many Japanese people still consider Africa as a very distant and risky market. Hence, Abe organizing TICAD 6 in Nairobi was a strong stamp of approval by the Japanese ...

(WPRI) — Juneteenth is a federal holiday marking the day when everyone in the United States became free. Here’s everything ...

Among the orders issued as Union troops arrived in Texas at the end of the Civil War was one declaring that all enslaved ...

How do people communicate with the President of the United States today? What impacts did President Abraham Lincoln have on African Americans? Direct students to the Introduction section of their ...

From the Muhammad Ali Center to the Camp Nelson National Monument, it features more than 50 locations dedicated to the ...

On a mid-April day in 1863, hundreds of African Americans ... that would settle 5,000 Black people on the island – had a singularly powerful backer: Abraham Lincoln. The 16th president had ...

“You’ve got to know your past so you can move forward in a positive way,” said Jackie Ruffin Pittman, who performed a ...