On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first read ...

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among ...

Palm Beach land baron Ken Griffin likes old things. Like dinosaur bones. Last year, he paid $44.6 million for a late Jurassic-era stegosaurus skeleton that was subsequently named Apex. And paper stuff ...

A Q&A with Zaakir Tameez about Charles Sumner and the antislavery movement. By Jamelle Bouie President Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the ...

Rooks is the chair of and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, where she's also the founding director of the Segrenomics Lab. Her interdisciplinary work, reflected in four books and ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston's annual Emancipation Day Parade took place Wednesday, marking 162 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and declared all ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - People across the Sunshine State celebrated freedom Monday. May 20 is Emancipation Day in Florida. That’s the day in 1865 when General Edward McCook read the Emancipation ...