The book is a celebration of spaces, past and present, where Black intellect, activism and community flourish. :: In the ...

Ahead of Focus Features’ theatrical re-release of the Ang Lee film, we speak with Diana Ossana, Avy Kaufman and more.

We revisit host Peter O’Dowd’s 2022 conversation with Opal Lee, the woman who spent decades walking and advocating for Juneteenth to be recognized as a national holiday.

Beloved actress Marla Gibbs is finally releasing her memoir “It’s Never Too Late.” People magazine reported. Gibbs, who is 94 ...

What happens to a holiday when its most beloved champion cannot join the celebration? On Thursday, hundreds still showed up ...

Opal Lee was 89 when she began her campaign to make the day a federal holiday. At 98. she's still an inspiration ...

“On the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...

Knowles: ‘When we recognize the push to make Juneteenth a national holiday was led by an educator — it highlights the ...

The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth' chronicles the life of Lee and the history behind America’s newest federal holiday.

Juneteenth’s food traditions, from red punch to mac and cheese, are celebrated by authors children’s book authors, ...