Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda [CURB] has released new commemorative flags to celebrate Cup Match and “highlight its deeper meaning; Bermuda’s journey to freedom and the legacy of abolitionist ...

Newport News kicked off a series of events Monday to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday, which commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, by raising the Juneteenth flag inside City Hall. Next ...

Photo taken on March 28, 2010 shows the Potala Palace during the celebration of the Serfs Emancipation Day in Lhasa, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. Nearly 3,000 people gathered at the ...

Gainesville officials began a month-long celebration Friday outside City Hall with a flag raising ceremony in recognition Emancipation Day in the Sunshine State. The monumental day in history came in ...

Today, June 19, marks Juneteenth Day—a day that celebrates black slaves freed from their enslavers. While not a national holiday, it is observed in the majority of American states by members of the ...

In 2000, the Juneteenth flag made its debut in a ceremony at Roxbury’s Dillaway-Thomas House. As the banner rose to the sky, its creator recalled, “it felt like a child being born.” “I didn’t know ...

Two flags commemorating people of African descent will flutter in Halifax skies this weekend. Both the African Nova Scotian flag and the Pan-African flag will be raised in lieu of Emancipation Day.

The City of Mississauga will be recognizing the 189th Emancipation Day on Aug. 1 at Celebration Square. Emancipation Day commemorates the abolition of slavery in the British Empire and is observed as ...

Dalhousie plans to raise the African Nova Scotian flag on campus on August 1 in honour of Emancipation Day, a day of recognition that marks the historic abolition of slavery in the British Empire on ...