For Juneteenth, here's our growing database of African American burial grounds in New Jersey — and what they mean to us today ...

Galveston celebrates the 160th Juneteenth anniversary with a week of events honoring emancipation and African American ...

Through song and poetry, African American residents with a connection to the Steptoe Neighborhood paid tribute to a ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library shares writings about local African Americans as ...

Juneteenth commemorates African-American freedom and achievement, and many Valley events are happening this week to celebrate ...

Ahead of Juneteenth, the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands is partnering with national organizations to help reclaim erased Black histories, and share them with a broader audience.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

It’s time to commemorate Juneteenth, recognizing the day in 1865 when the last group of enslaved African Americans finally ...

Today on Juneteenth, we are celebrating African American freedom and history with a look at The Black Heritage Trail of New ...

"What does the pope think about us being related? That's my question," one cousin said. "What does he think of us because ...