National Freedom Day — to celebrate Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation will be held 2-4 p.m.
Tracing the tangled lives of two Black Cape Girardeau men named George Bollinger, from WPA slave narratives to death records ...
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, an auction in New York will feature rare items that trace the ...
Lee, who's from Texas and known by many as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth,” was added to the list of "incredible heroines of ...
Barbie’s Inspiring Women Series just welcomed one of its most meaningful additions yet: a new doll honoring Opal Lee, the ...
Every classroom in public K-12 schools and colleges would have to display a copy of the Ten Commandments under a bill that ...
An advancing bill would require South Carolina schools to post a poster of the Ten Commandments in all of their classrooms, and allow school chaplains.
Even during his lifetime, Washington faced criticism for holding slaves. In 1775, British essayist Samuel Johnson criticized ...
Mattel celebrates Black History Month by welcoming civil rights advocate Opal Lee to its Barbie Inspiring Women Series.