The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves ...

On Thursday the nation will commemorate the day that enslaved Black people learned that they were free, two years after the ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed - after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The re ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (KTTC) – As many in the community prepare to celebrate Juneteenth, a Minnesota historian is telling the story of a man buried in Rochester who is connected to the origins of the ...