Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

As we celebrate our freedom and honor our heritage, we will continue to redeem the dream and continue building our ...

The Advocate highlights social inequality through original stories and opinions, and content generated by fellow NNPA and other publications ...

Juneteenth has only been a national holiday since 2021, but KBIA’s Katelynn McIlwain and Rebecca Smith bring us the story of ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Before Juneteenth fades away in the rearview mirror, as yet another Republican president recklessly drives us toward yet ...

The American Civil War. Remember it? Well, no, because you weren't alive. But you've read about it, and the Civil War ...

The Advocate highlights social inequality through original stories and opinions, and content generated by fellow NNPA and other publications ...

After the Civil War ended in 1865, Dr. Crumpler served as a doctor under General Orlando Brown, the Assistant Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau, treating over 30,000 freed slaves, most of whom ...

Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed its Black residents that they were a free people. The 246 years of ...

Juneteenth was celebrated for the fourth year at Bloomington's biggest park with a diverse crowd of vendors, live ...