The week of events brings in people from far and wide to Paducah to celebrate. This year's theme is "Legacy & Lineage: A ...

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...

Perception is your reality, but not necessarily THE reality! Or, said differently: What we believe to be true isn’t always the truth. On June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth), the last of the slaves in the USA ...

Perception is your reality but not necessarily THE reality! Or, said differently, what we believe to be true isn’t always the truth. On June 19, 1865 (Juneteenth) the last of the slaves in the USA ...

My sense is that these poems might pick up someone’s spirit, they might deposit a resolution regarding some values,’ Forbes ...

While June 19, 1865, marks the day when the last enslaved people in America learned of their freedom, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation ... a celebration requires funding from ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we approach Juneteenth, let’s also acknowledge some ugly truths that reflect the times in which our our 16th president lived. Juneteenth ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Anderson was only the second African American designer tapped to design a commemorative stamp, the first being Georg Olden who designed the Proclamation’s 100th anniversary stamp in 1963. Description ...