On June 19th, 1865, the last enslaved African Americans were set free in the United States – a day that has been marked as a ...

Both the left and the right try to co-opt it, but the real story of American slavery doesn’t serve any one faction.

Black history is part of the real story of America’s diversity, a story that is painful, heroic, and complicated but certainly worth preserving.

Federal Way is back to the drawing-board on the city’s flag policy once again after a special council meeting held on Feb. 17 ...

Jaheem’s First Juneteenth is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Planting People Growing Justice Press website ( www.ppgjli.org ). Thank you, Zephaniah, for sharing your story. We as ...

Black history advocates are making efforts to preserve culture and education from what they see as an erosion and erasure of those aspects of American life directed by the Trump administration. Since ...

We may be in the middle of a brutal winter but we’re already looking ahead to a Philadelphia summer staple. The annual Wawa Welcome America festival is set to return this year. The festivities will ...

In 1788, when western Pennsylvania residents petitioned the General Assembly to create Allegheny County, four of the petitioners were free Black men. In the 1800s, Pittsburgh was home to many ...

The new Oni Press graphic novel dramatizes the life and work of Dr. Opal Lee.

‘Juneteenth is something that nobody had heard of until five years ago and was pushed for political purposes,’ Post Falls ...

The City of Post Falls has sparked controversy by removing Juneteenth as a city holiday, prompting a local anti-hate group ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Written by Angélique Roché with art by Alvin Epps, Millicent Monroe, and Bex Glendining, First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth ...