On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...

According to a March 21 article on Axios, Congressman Jim Clyburn of the Sixth District of South Carolina said, "Yeah, I don't accept the notion that Juneteenth is the day that Blacks were freed from ...

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Sept. 22, 2022, marks the 160th anniversary of a pivotal moment in American political and social history; one that is often overlooked, and certainly underestimated. On that day in 1862, President ...

John Hempstead (Broadcaster "Letters to the editor" for Dec. 8) quotes the famous introduction to Declaration of Independence, "...Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." In the next sentence he ...