Today is Juneteenth, the national recognition of the end of slavery in the United States, and celebrations are scheduled ...

Jeri Mills' great, great, great grandmother was the daughter of one of the first enslaved people forced to help build Monte ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston announcing the enforcement of ...

The observances on Thursday come even as the Trump administration has been removing content about African American history from federal websites.

Trump is proving me wrong, but not consistently. When he leans into ideology, he swerves into unforced errors. When he’s ...

No, slaves in Tennessee weren’t freed until a restricted electorate approved the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery as a condition of rejoining the Union, on Feb. 25, 1865.

No, slaves in Tennessee weren’t freed until a restricted electorate approved the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery as a condition of rejoining the Union, on Feb. 25, 1865.

Temperatures are expected to range from the upper 80s into the mid 90s across Florida on June 19. In east central Florida, ...

Communities across East Texas like Kilgore, Longview, Marshall and Tyler all celebrated Juneteenth this weekend. Juneteenth is celebrated around June 19 every year as a way to commemorate the day the ...