In opposing ‘Year of the Normans’, is Sinn Féin saying it is offensive to celebrate the ancestors of people who made a ...

Tulsa is offering residents a chance to delve into their family history and possibly uncover connections to the 1921 Tulsa ...

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal ...

A powerful Juneteenth commemoration brought together families with a complex shared history as descendants of enslaved people ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from ...

For many Black Americans, cemetery preservation highlights the power of legacy and the importance of finding your roots.

Federal Way officials unveiled a new sign Wednesday at Conna Park, renamed for Black pioneers John and Mary Conna, who homesteaded the area in the late 1800s.

Birmingham’s first poet laureate Salaam Green released a new book this week to coincide with the Juneteenth holiday. The ...

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

Pope Leo XIV is related to seven celebrities, including Madonna, Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie, says “Finding Your Roots” ...

Freedmen descendants in Oklahoma continue fighting for tribal citizenship as Juneteenth highlights both freedom and ongoing exclusion.

On June 21, a Louisville nonprofit will show people how to navigate the digitized records of the Catholic Church in Kentucky, ...