An inaugural gospel sing-off will headline this year’s Emancipation Vigil ceremony in Montego Bay, St James, as part of ...

The Owen Sound Emancipation Picnic and Festival, is set to go August 1st-3rd. The city was the most northerly terminus of the ...

A new feature film set to begin filming in the Triad is looking for background actors.

English colonists arrived at Roanoke Island, near the coast of present-day North Carolina, to reestablish an earlier, deserted colony.

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 22. Check what happened today in history here.

What began as a rainy morning turned into a heartfelt celebration of freedom, heritage and unity as the Montevallo community gathered for its third annual Juneteenth celebration on Thursday, June 19.

Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...

The Descendants Project will host panel sessions and an exhibit on the 1811 German Coast slave revolt, at the Woodland Plantation in Laplace ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well as a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation ...

STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MORNING REPORT NEWSLETTER Griffin also purchased a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation for $4.4 million at the same Sotheby’s auction on ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $12 million.