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According to a story in The Post-Standard published in March 1958, when Mayor Anthony Henninger affixed his signature to the ...

(NEXSTAR) – Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At ...

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