KALAMAZOO, Mich. — June 19, 1865 –the day all people in the United States were officially granted freedom. All across the ...

A monument unveiled in Lexington on Juneteenth honors Lewis and Harriet Hayden, two formerly enslaved Lexingtonians who ...

Her installation captures the moment Union troops reached Galveston's shores while honoring the individual stories of the ...

“Evidence of (slavery’s) bitter fruit survives even today.” Suzan Johnson Cook, ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom from 2011 to 2013 under President Barack ...

Audrey Vann a staff writer for The Stranger who was raised by Joan Jett and Heart. She’s an avid collector of records, vintage clothing, pop culture memorabilia, and doilies. She can usually be found ...

Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

Celebrate Juneteenth by looking at iconic films of the 21st century primarily from Black creators. Editor’s note: this list ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd followed the same guiding philosophy when exhibiting Indigenous people in ...