Manhattan Beach held a Juneteenth ceremony on Thursday, June 19, at Bruce’s Beach Park, honoring the day the last enslaved African American people learned they’d been freed by the Emancipation ...

The events included readings from a published works and lyrical poems, music and invocations, interpretive dance and ...

Wrigley Field was a special place in 1990 when the Chicago Cubs last hosted an All-Star Game. It would be a sight to see if it returns in 2027.

Several hundred gather on Juneteenth to dedicate “Towards Freedom,” a monumental depiction of Harriet and Lewis Hayden who ...

Grammy Award-winning gospel veteran BeBe Winans had one question when he bid farewell immediately following the IN UNISON 2024 “Lift Every Voice” Black History Month Concert. “St. Louis, can I come ...

The celebration in Leimert Park, billed as a “Black Family Reunion,” included many of the emotions that come with family ...

At an event sponsored by the Domenico Bartolucci Foundation, Pope Leo XIV said that polyphony is a musical form “full of ...

Harriet and Lewis Hayden left in 1844 with the help of the Underground Railroad and became prominent abolitionists in Boston, ...

There are a number of musical acts and performances throughout the day, with headliners DJ Drama, DJ Kid Capri, Slick Rick, ...

Lift every voice and sing, Till earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty,” goes the lyric written in 1900 by ...

The school children of Jacksonville kept singing it; they went off to other schools and sang it; they became teachers and taught it to other children.

The county adopted Juneteenth as its own holiday in 2021, the same year as its designation as a national holiday.