Cities across metro Atlanta marked Juneteenth with celebrations on Thursday, honoring the day in 1865 when the last enslaved ...

The City of Fairburn opens Fire Station 23, enhancing emergency response and community safety with state-of-the-art ...

Decatur Housing Authority celebrates groundbreaking of Phase Two of Village at Legacy, a project aiming to provide affordable ...

Atlanta is preparing to host one of the Southeast’s largest and most vibrant tributes to the historic holiday.

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was ...

At 84, Dr. Amos Brown is stepping aside at his church, one of the oldest predominately African American Baptist congregations ...

Juneteenth was an informal holiday for decades, celebrated with parades, barbecues, and other gatherings. Fort Worth has a ...

On Tulsa Race Massacre Observance Day, recognized June 1, Mayor Monroe Nichols, the city’s first African-American mayor, announced the Greenwood Trust, a $105 million private charitable fund ...

Led by director Samantha Singleton, the Hapeville Depot Museum is finding new ways to share the city’s broader history. Its ...

Goodwill of North Georgia — which turns 100 this summer — celebrated 781 graduates of its job training and career development programs.

U.S. News & World Report recently named Williamsburg one of the best places to celebrate Juneteenth, joining notable locations such as Atlanta, Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The list ...

Winning the mayoral race in Anniston, Alabama, Ciara Smith has officially become the youngest and first African American mayor in the history of Anniston. The Spelman College alum, who also serves ...