M ONTGOMERY, Ala. ( WSFA) - For the past fourteen years, Montgomery Maafa has held a commemoration to honor those who came before them. The term is used to refer to the trans-Atlantic slave trade, ...

The Archives also contain copies of the 1833 and 1852 slave codes, and Philip Gosse's observations of slavery in Alabama in Letters From Alabama, Chiefly Relating to Natural History (Mountain Brook; ...

Blue state leaders have considerable power at their disposal to confront the threat of the administration’s authoritarianism. But some lines have never previously been crossed.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas and attr ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865 as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War.

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

Alabama Voters Banned Prison Slavery — But Prisoners Say It Hasn’t Stopped As a lawsuit tries to stop a forced prison labor program, a beer distributor is defending its own participation.

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal… ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the tribal ...