A fundraising dinner to benefit the seventh-annual Potsdam community-wide Juneteenth Celebration will be held Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. Reservations are requested for seating at a community meal and to-go ...

This is an opinion cartoon. “Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of ...

US publisher Oni Press has gone big promoting the upcoming release of the graphic novel First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth, utilising the cover of trade journal Publishers Weekly to ...

Three new laws took effect on October 1 in the Sunshine State, imposing harsher penalties for trafficking minors, luring ...

Angélique Roché wrote the first-ever graphic novel dedicated to the history of Juneteenth, which chronicles the inspiring ...

Emancipation Park, one of Houston's oldest and most historic public spaces, is preparing for a major transformation. Emancipation Park Conservancy (EPC) on Monday announced plans to transform the park ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a ...

Interview with University of Texas professor Peniel Joseph, winner of Texas Writer Award from Texas Book Festival ...

The holiday traces back 160 years on the island, to the day General Gordon Granger announced enslaved people were free two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. The three people killed ...

Anne Arundel County to issue formal apology for slavery on Maryland Emancipation Day Billionaire who gave $130M to military during shutdown identified—Report Democrats Accuse Trump DOJ of Election ...

Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images President Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Monday to be Columbus Day, in an effort to “reclaim” what he called the famed explorer’s “extraordinary legacy of ...

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Millions of tons of discarded electronics from the United States are being shipped overseas, much of it to developing countries in Southeast Asia unprepared to safely handle ...