Since taking office in January, President Trump has tried to reframe the country’s past involving racism and discrimination ...

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation into law, officially ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...

Journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson reflects on this year's Juneteenth celebrations — and the push and pull of the Black ...

Syracuse's own Juneteenth celebrations date back decades, with local Black communities calling it "our Fourth of July." ...

Donald Trump intends to make the world—especially besieged Iranian civilians—wait a little longer to learn if he plans to ...

News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and ...

Colorful children's picture books, gripping historical fiction and more are on our must-read list this Juneteenth ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Violence and fear swept through towns in an arc around Minneapolis for more than 40 hours over the weekend ...

Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in ...

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country.