ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

Emancipation for most was a series of stops and starts depending on where an enslaved person lived. For nearly 160 years, Black people across Southern Appalachia have celebrated the Eighth of August ...

Juneteenth was celebrated for the fourth year at Bloomington's biggest park with a diverse crowd of vendors, live entertainment and Black joy.

The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

Emancipation Days, held last weekend in Joplin, was a celebration of freedom and community, and a homecoming for many. It has been celebrated annually since at least 1914, on the weekend closest to ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

The county had no such policy until after county Department of Health workers attended the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade in ...

Black August, rooted in the legacy of George Jackson and Black liberation struggles, is now a month-long observance honoring ...

If it get to the point where we — like France and Denmark — end up seriously considering cutting a holiday, my vote is for ...

After spending nearly three decades preaching in two different centuries, James Ingram has stepped away from his pulpit.