Seven years after the Florida Legislature approved a memorial recognizing the tragedy of slavery for the grounds of the ...

Seven years after the Florida Legislature approved a memorial recognizing the tragedy of slavery for the grounds of the ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

The late Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, had introduced H.R. 40 for years. It was named after the “40 acres and a mule’’ the federal government had promised freed slaves.

In 2014, Brown University installed its Slavery Memorial on the Front Green outside University Hall on the Providence campus. The display includes a sculpture of a ball and broken chain, while a ...

Members of Florida Legislature had no clue the "Circle of Chains" slavery memorial was installed - or completed - seven years after approval.

The event featured the dedication of a memorial stone in honor of those formerly enslaved families. The stone now rests in ...

Despite federal grant funding cuts, the Cooper Family Foundation held its annual celebration, which has been a part of the ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

A Chester County-based organization promoting racial healing through storytelling is working with Longwood Gardens, Lincoln ...

From the city to the suburbs, Juneteenth celebrations are happening all across Chicagoland. In the western suburbs, Governor JB Pritzker and Illinois Speaker of the House ...

They are believed to be inmates, young and old, forced into a form of post-Civil War slavery, thanks to new Texas laws and ...