I’m a professor at the University of Michigan, and while psychology is my discipline, I’ve had a longtime affiliation with Black Studies. I talk to – and teach – my children about Black history. Both ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States, with a history dating back to the 1860s. Juneteenth ...

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Amid an effort to scrub the commemoration of the history of slavery and racism from national parks, dozens gathered in ...

Dr. Molefi Asante, Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Temple University says June 19th, 1865, also known as Juneteenth, is a day that blacks in America should never forget. "It is ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.Learn ...

LOS ANGELES -- Elita Adjei was born in Houston and raised in California, where she and her family carried on Juneteenth traditions and celebrations passed down over the years. Adjei welcomed us into ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man and his vision, ...

June 19 commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S. A handful of corporations in the U.S. announced this year that they are making Juneteenth, the day traditionally used to commemorate the end of ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the ...