Before Juneteenth, there was Emancipation Day. This past Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026 was the 163rd anniversary of an historical ...

Should we be choosing smoking as a symbol of defiance for women? There is a certain amount of satisfaction involved in symbolic defiance and rebellion against the norm, specifically in structured ...

Today, Jan. 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s official signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a date and courageous political act that mark one of America’s most significant historical ...

HAMPTON, Va. — Most locals don’t know exactly how long it’s been here. They say at least 300 years. It was around before any of the buildings that stand today in this city of 134,000 on the Chesapeake ...

Years before Colin Kaepernick took a knee, these people stood up. Black and white, male and female, enslaved and free, they publicly opposed racism and violence and fought for freedom and equality.

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 ...

Since the death of Masha Amini, a young Kurdish Iranian woman arrested by the Iranian morality police for "improper hijab," many have been posting protest videos on social networks. In some of them, ...

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Grazia Deledda and the related celebrations, the president of the Senate, Maria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati, sent a letter to the mayor of ...

By cutting me down, Saint-Domingue has only broken the trunk of the tree of black freedom; it will grow back from its roots, for they are many and deep,' ...