Explore the significance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing' at the 125th anniversary symposium, highlighting its cultural and ...

Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a hymn many African Americans of older generations just know. They’d sung it in church, learned ...

It was the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers finally arrived in Texas to enforce the Emancipation ...

As she held her 8-month-old son, Khalid, Medina refocused on the history of Juneteenth including U.S. Union troops who ...

The Emancipation Proclamation became law in the United States. It declared that “all persons held as slaves … shall be … ...

The Freedmen’s Bureau recently digitized its search portal for archives from 1865-1872 to allow family historians and genealogists to research the history ... “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” ...

He has endowed his creatures with the capacity to create, and from this capacity has flowed the sweet songs of sorrow and joy that have allowed man to cope with his environment and many different ...

Stacker collected images of Juneteenth celebrations over the years that showcase how the holiday has changed, from 1970 to ...

Her music represents a moment in music history, when a new generation ... In February, Ledisi performed “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before the Super Bowl in New Orleans. The NOLA-born star ...

Grace Potter’s 2008 album ‘Medicine,’ produced by T Bone Burnett, is finally released, recorded in Los Angeles, but with a soulful Southern sound.

“In 1791, he began emancipating nearly 500 people – 70 years before the Civil War – making him probably the largest, private emancipator in American history ... “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” ...