Two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, the enslaved people of Texas learned — via the ...

These Black people may have left the South, but they did not leave their heritage. They brought their culture and traditions with them when they left, so it stands to reason that Black folks from as ...

Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...

Many government offices will be closed in observance of the Juneteenth federal holiday. Here's a list of what else is closed.

Tuesday night at the Ardmore Public Library, John Whetsel shared his experience housing Terry Nichols, who was convicted of ...

On June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally received word that they were free.