How one of the Constitution’s earliest critics used the founding language — and silences — to fight for freedom.

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

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Juneteenth is not just a day off, it is a litmus test of protecting Black land, legacy, and sustaining justice in our ...

Columbus Day and Presidents Day are now in the crosshairs as debate erupts over which holidays America should actually ...

Historian Adam Goodheart, in an interview with PolitiFact in August 2017, noted that a person could be (and often was) a "slave master" but not technically a "slave owner." ...

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

As I’ve written before, like many African-Americans, I am the child of the slave owners and the enslaved. Because of a bloodline seeded by violence, I’m a child of the Confederacy.

June 19, 1865, marked the end of slavery in the United States, and today, 160 years later, the Wichita Falls community and beyond came together to celebrate Juneteenth.

"When you go back and look at your how family history and look at them trying to or escaping their slave owners it really touches your heart," she said, also sharing the story of James T. Scott ...