Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking ...

The birthplace of Motown and the Model T car, this industrious Michigan city has gone from boom to bust and back. Today, it’s ...

We believe the word “Juneteenth” is much more than a cute play on words. It is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas, ...

Gov. Andy Beshear joined tourism and community leaders at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville this week to unveil a new ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Whether you are related or not, everyone is family at Saturday’s Juneteenth Family Reunion. Celebrate the spirit of coming ...

Allen, 75, is not only a trailblazing artist, but also a champion of arts education — on screen (her most famous role is dance teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame and its television adaptation ...

Charles Burrell, the classical and jazz bass player and the first African-American member of a major American symphony, died ...

Members of the African American Coalition said pairing Juneteenth with Dodge Park Thursdays allows the group to reach a wider audience.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S., but for Black people, cancer signs can show up in unexpected places, and ...

She signed up for a genealogy workshop, hoping to better understand her background, and her health. What she found out was "shocking." ...