We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Juneteenth has become a federal holiday in recent years, commemorating the emancipation of the last enslaved people in Texas ...

The transportation network for escaped slaves during the mid-1800s passed right through Delaware, a 95-mile trail spanning ...

Andrew Johnson famously freed his slaves on Aug. 8, 1863, but it would be another 18 months before Tennessee freed enslaved ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Juneteenth became a time for both reflection and celebration, blending solemn remembrance with joyous expressions of culture ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, a restored Virginia schoolhouse where enslaved and free Black students were taught to read is on ...

Historians give their view on plans to mark the 1,000th anniversary of William the Conquerer and what was more an English ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as 'sex slaves' from the age of 13 on various dates ...

This is not just a celebration of how far we've come in 160 years, but also showing that there's still a lot of work that ...

For a time during this period, British transport even exceeds Portugal’s. In the final decades of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Portugal reclaims its status as the leading slavers, sending 1.3 ...