This week, the AFRO asked, “What did the first Juneteenth celebrations look like?” Martha Whiting-Goddard is the great-granddaughter of John Henry “Jack” Yates, the founding father of ...

Learn more about the legacy of “the grandmother of Juneteenth,” Opal Lee. After more than a decade of being closed and months of renovations, the Plano African American Museum will reopen its ...