Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

Harrison resident Eric Schmitt was well aware of his family’s unique lineage growing up. The 55-year-old is a descendent of ...

In early and mid-2025, a claim that "only 1.6% of US citizens owned slaves in 1860" resurfaced and circulated widely online, including on X, Reddit and Facebook.

Stone Mountain Park is home of the biggest Confederate monument in America, and one group wants to keep it that way forever.

The document was signed 14 years before the start of the Civil War as a growing number of religious leaders were starting to speak out against slavery. Split over slavery ...

Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or ...

When is Juneteenth 2025? Observed annually on June 19, Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in Texas following the Civil War. In 2025, the holiday falls on a Thursday.

A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The ...