Juneteenth became the newest U.S. federal holiday in 2021, but it has held significance for many Black Americans for a long ...

Thursday marks Juneteenth, 160 years since emancipation was fully recognized. On June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The news came two and a half ...

Sojourner Truth was a formerly enslaved woman who became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance and civil and women’s rights. Her Civil War work earned her an invitation to meet President ...