Today is the 150th anniversary of Juneteenth, the day when African-American slaves in Galveston, Texas were finally granted their freedom – two-and-a-half years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and just over two months after the
TULSA, Oklahoma – The Oklahoma NAACP announced Friday it is calling for support of a statewide silent prayer service on Saturday during the Juneteenth celebrations around the state and also a moment of silent prayer during Sunday church services
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1, 1863. But the Civil War ground on for another two years, and as Gregory P. Downs makes clear in a thorough history of Juneteenth over at TPM, Confederates were doing everything they could to
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued January 1, 1863. But the Civil War ground on for another two years, and as Gregory P. Downs makes clear in a thorough history of Juneteenth over at TPM, Confederates were
Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 that slavery in the United States effectively ended, is normally a joyous occasion. But today's commemoration was more somber, which Neal Brunson, director of Jersey City's Afro-American Historical Museum, said