A Jonesboro school built during segregation for Black students to have a quality education will now become a museum and community center.

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

Gary Horton is “passing the baton” of the Walking in Black History trip to his daughter after helping guide three decades of the program.

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.

Alabama's GOP governor, Kay Ivey, has made Juneteenth an official state holiday, marking the first time the state has celebrated the day.

Jun. 19 is Juneteenth, a time to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States. On this day in 1865, more than 200,000 enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, two years after the ...

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

Breathing is essential; we cannot live without it. So, too, is reading essential for a democracy; a democracy cannot survive without an informed citizenry.

Troy University's Rosa Parks Museum held its 10th annual festival Saturday, with more celebrations on the horizon.

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.

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