Thousands of sculpted heads - captive African men, women, and children - meticulously created by the artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, emerge from the soil at the Nkyinkyim Museum, as a sacred gathering of ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

Festivities extend beyond Montgomery to other areas like Prattville with parades and celebrations in North Highland Park.

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama The schooner Clotilda smuggled African captives into the U.S. in 1860, more than 50 years after importing slaves was outlawed.

The new memorial to lynching victims will open this spring, along with a museum that will trace grim parts of the African-American experience, from slavery to mass incarceration.

The Scottsboro Boys Museum is completely full. Not a seat open on the pew benches from the former Joyce Chapel building was ...

Today is Alabama’s first ever annual observance of Juneteenth. That’s the date back in 1865 when enslaved blacks in Texas ...

Juneteenth is a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S. after the Civil War. Juneteenth, ... Juneteenth events across North Alabama. ... 1865 Juneteenth Event at Signals Museum - Deputy ...

As negotiations for the sale of the U.S. National Slavery Museum’s Fredericksburg property continues, the museum is looking at its options, including whether to file for federal bankruptcy ...

FREDERICKSBURG— A site that was destined to be the home of a national slavery museum is instead headed to a public auction. The 38 acres are scheduled to be sold Oct. 31. The auction could get ...