"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon," declared President George W. Bush declared on September 14 from amid the ...

In Juneteenth’s fifth year as a federal holiday, commemorations of the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States continue to evolve in the Baltimore area and beyond.

The holiday, which falls on June 19, commemorates the historic day when more than 250,000 enslaved people in Galveston Bay, ...

The Beacon of Freedom rises 47 feet and was designed by Perkins&Will, and fabricated by Demiurge. It was inspired by civil leader and activist Lyda Moore Merrick, who once said: “My father passed a ...