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Biden removed the names of Confederate generals from nine Army installations. Trump has restored those Confederate names, but ...
The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...
The African American Civil War Museum in D.C. marked Juneteenth with a celebration to honor the estimated 6,000 Black soldiers who went to Galveston, Texas, 160 years ago.
Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...
On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...
When we retreat from reasoned, evidence-based scholarship on important subjects like science or history, the online fever ...
It's all of a piece with Trump's desire to restore Confederate monuments and milk anti-Black and anti-immigrant animus for ...
On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal and discriminatory — presumably against white people. He signed his own ...
A single T-shirt was enough for fans to turn on Beyoncé during the Paris leg of her Cowboy Carter tour. After her first show ...
Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the community marks Juneteenth.
Burke said he is the great-great-grandson of Peter Bailey, who was part of Company K in the 17th Regiment of the U.S. Colored Troops and a veteran of the Battle of Nashville in 1864. Burke has been ...
Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly ...