Yes, the U.S. declared independence from the British Crown in 1776. But the kind of “king” these protesters seem to fear had ...

Belarus has freed Siarhei Tsikhanouski, a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana ...

Every June, the nation celebrates Juneteenth — the day Union troops finally arrived in Galveston on June 19, 1865, and ...

Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation, calling for the freeing of all slaves, on Jan. 1, 1863, but the actual ...

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...

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 ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was ...