The Lincoln Museum hosts free days Feb. 7 and 12 featuring family activities, live music and access to a signed Emancipation ...
This year is the 100th anniversary of the federal recognition of Black History Month. Originally known as Negro History Week ...
Over the past few years, Juneteenth has become more nationally recognized as a federal holiday, and that’s for good reason. While many US citizens celebrate this country’s independence from Great ...
It has crippled Russia’s flagship energy industry, depleted t Wealth Fund, and impoverished the Russian countryside, ...
According to the Library of Congress, the inception of Black History Month dates back to 1915.
For every step forward, there were steps back.
A new exhibit at the History Colorado Center uncovers how 137 Black men, advocating for their voting rights in the 1860s, ...
Woodson, an African American historian with a PhD from Harvard, initially dubbed it, “Negro History Week” and picked February ...
The Black historian Carter G. Woodson — who dedicated his career to the study of Black life and history — responded 100 years ...
The Town of Irmo has officially recognized Juneteenth as a town holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned about their freedom, ...