Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

The event honored the day of Aug. 8, 1863, when Tennessee officially recognized President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation ...

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

An inaugural gospel sing-off will headline this year’s Emancipation Vigil ceremony in Montego Bay, St James, as part of ...

Black August Resistance Month 2025 is here! Black August was created to honor and promote the teaching of George Lester ...

The Owen Sound Emancipation Picnic and Festival, is set to go August 1st-3rd. The city was the most northerly terminus of the ...

The slaves had come to San Bernardino in 1852 with their owner, Robert Smith, part of the Mormon founding of the community.

In 2013, the US Postal Service commissioned Anderson to design the commemorative stamp for the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Anderson was only the second African American designer ...

The public can choose from 25 historic designs including Bugs Bunny, Star Trek, and Disney characters for the commemorative collection.

“For a handsome, steel-engraved picture of our late esteemed fellow-Cincinnatian, Salmon P. Chase, send $10,000 to the U.S. treasury,” Cincinnati Post reporter Eugene Segal wrote in 1928.