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

Analysis - 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 ...

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo is a Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist who engages with the histories and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism at home and, increasingly, internationally, on ...

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

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. For the last four years, Alabama’s current Republican governor, Kay Ivey, used her executive powers to designate Juneteenth as a state holiday. The ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Montgomerians across the city celebrated Juneteenth. People gathered at the Rosa Parks Museum and the Montgomery Performing ...

The Ordinary People Society is hosting the first annual Block Party in honor of Juneteenth. The event is in collaboration ...