Sadie Barnette, FBI Drawing series and Homegood Centerpiece from 2022. John Quincy Adams Ward's "The Freedman" from 1863. Jeffrey Meris, The Block Is Hot -- The Resurrection at Williams College Museum ...

WASHINGTON — Each year on April 16, Washington, D.C., celebrates Emancipation Day — the day in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the DC Compensated Emancipation Act into law, freeing over ...

For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the document in its entirety. Today, the country observes ...

It's the 160th anniversary of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, which occurred more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Word reached Florida’s ...

For many Caribbean nations, August 1 is observed as Emancipation Day, which marks the anniversary of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, which paved the way for the end of slavery. In practice, most ...

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day that came after decades of effort by abolitionists and amid the ...

Just seven years after they learned of their liberation, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans banded together in 1872 to purchase Emancipation Park in Houston. The 10-acre park was meant to serve ...

As the Sons of Veterans of the Civil War read the Emancipation Proclamation Monday, Indiana University Northwest junior and vice president of the IU Northwest Black Student Union A’Reya Davis said she ...

Cal Johnson, born into slavery, became Knoxville's first Black millionaire after emancipation. Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of ...

Correction: a previous version of this story expressed that the Frist Art Museum was hosting a yearly August 8 Emancipation event, it was a one time event. America will celebrate Emancipation Day, ...