A lithograph produced for the Westliche Post, a German-language newspaper in St. Louis, to honor adoption of Missouri's ...

A social media post that circulated during the recent Juneteenth holiday explored the history of how police have interacted with Blacks in America. The post helped explain present day conflict between ...

"We’re finally now getting to the point where we’re going to be addressing the original sin of this country, 400 years old," candidate Joe Biden told Wisconsin voters in September 2020, "slavery and ...

Johns Hopkins and Loyola universities have released reports on their history of slavery. This week, the University of Maryland did the same.The report is the culmination of The 1865 Project.

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WASHINGTON — The end of slavery in the United States is often recognized by President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. But the day commemorating the freedom of African Americans, ...

Regarding Chris T. Alusheff’s Feb. 14 letter, ”Clarifying how long U.S. ‘sanctioned’ slavery,” in response to Eric Foster’s Feb 10 column, “Reluctance on vaccine bares racial bias in health system:” ...

Enslaved people already had been freed two-and-a-half years earlier, when President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, according to PBS. So freedom arrived on June ...

As long as slavery existed in America, people fought against it. Juneteenth remembers their battles while celebrating the first taste of freedom after the Civil War. Thirty-five years after the end of ...