Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

On Thursday, the United States government is pausing its ongoing transformation into the sharp instrument of Donald Trump ’s ...

North Country organizations plan Juneteenth tour of historic sites Underground Railroad in Champlain Valley and Adirondacks ...

Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating a significant step toward the end of slavery in the United States, marks a ...

King County Metro hosts a taxpayer-funded event promoting a radical black trans liberation group, raising political concerns.

To mark Juneteenth, the North Star Underground Railroad Museum, SUNY Plattsburgh and John Brown Lives! are hosting an art ...

Juneteenth is just around the corner. We look at where you can celebrate around western Washington and break down how the ...

They usually represent a statement, a stance and often a refusal. As the 2025 Met Gala kicks off under the theme “ Superfine: Tailoring Black Style ,” it does more than celebrate a “cool ...

now he passed the alabama state bar exam in 1937. it was considered one of the most difficult in the country at the time. he became the first black attorney in alabama to represent his own clients in ...

African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and ...