After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons.

Gainesville launches Journey to Juneteenth with a flag ceremony, honoring Florida’s May 20, 1865, emancipation and promoting ...

The City of Gainesville marked its sixth year partnering with the Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center to celebrate the ...

WASHINGTON - For the second year, thousands of people marked Juneteenth by queuing outside the National Archives’s East Side Rotunda Gallery to catch a glimpse of the rarely exhibited Emancipation ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There’s more to celebrate on Jan. 1 than the start of a new year. It’s ...

Community members gathered Friday night at Fort King National Historic Landmark in Ocala to reflect on Florida’s Emancipation ...

Derek O. Jackson, the author of a new book, “Men Dying…Garden Moments,” will be featured at two events in Wakulla County in ...

A group of former slaves raised $800 to buy land to create Emancipation Park, a gathering spot to celebrate Juneteenth, the ...

Page one of the original Emancipation Proclamation is seen Jan. 19, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that ...

Allen Guelzo’s book leads us into contested territory. For more than a generation after the Civil War, Francis B. Carpenter’s painting “The Emancipation Proclamation,” portraying Lincoln as the great ...

Tallahassee's Emancipation Week began Saturday with a Walk Through Living History event in the city's historic South Side ...