The First Baptist Church of Williamsburg established itself in 1776, although parishioners met before then in fields and ...

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

June 19, also known as Juneteenth, is a day to celebrate the freedom of people once enslaved in the United States. On June 19 ...

There's also special Neo-Futurist Theater Pride shows, Vegandale in Grant Park, the House of Coffee Music Festival and a Lakeview Coffee Stroll.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Jubilee Day or Liberation Day, commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.

By the time the drumming and dancing starts Thursday, an organization that promotes African American history and culture in ...

Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

I'm a professor with deep ties to Black studies, but I was surprised that my kids couldn't discuss the significance of Juneteenth.

On this day in 1865 the last slaves in the US found out they were free when Union troops showed up in Galveston.

On Thursday, the United States government is pausing its ongoing transformation into the sharp instrument of Donald Trump ’s ...

In Juneteenth’s fifth year as a federal holiday, commemorations of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States continue to evolve in the Baltimore area and beyond.

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 ...