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Watch Night, also known as Freedom’s Eve, is a sacred New Year’s Eve tradition in Black communities rooted in Christian worship and remembrance of Dec. 31, 1862, when enslaved and free African ...

June 19, 1865, or Juneteenth, marks the day the last of the enslaved in the Confederacy learned they were freed due to the Emancipation Proclamation. Now the federally recognized holiday commemorates ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham ...

When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...

The renovated rec center at Houston’s Emancipation Park. Today marks Juneteenth, commemorating the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston to announce the end of slavery in Texas and the United States ...

Michel Martin speaks with Christopher Bonner, a historian at the University of Maryland, about the significance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued on Sept. 22, 1862. We're ...

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 ...

Part of the reason why Kathryn Benjamin Golden, assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Delaware, is a historian is because she views history as a change-making tool. Juneteenth, ...

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Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local history that surprised her. She learned that in April 1862, President ...