Many Americans are flocking to the country’s beaches this weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July. These sandy retreats hold ...

The City of Richmond is in partnership with the Shockoe Project and other design teams to construct a memorial planning ...

The George Washington Carver Museum’s ‘Black Folk Photography’ exhibit inspires guests to examine historical race relations ...

Debora Wondercheck was trying to process scenes of civil unrest in 2021 when she came up with “Gospel Voices of OC,” a production chronicling the lives of African Americans who helped build and shape ...

Before a visit to the immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, Trump told reporters that snakes and alligators would ...

The holiday to mark the end of slavery in the U.S. goes back to an order issued on June 19, 1865, as Union troops arrived in Galveston at the end of the Civil War. General Order No. 3 declared that ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — The rebuilding of one of the nation’s oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before constructing a wooden meetinghouse in Virginia, started ...

With flags, ceremonies, parades and pomp, celebrations across the United States marked the day the promise of freedom finally rang true for more Americans.

Lela Johnson, 97, was a member of one of the oldest Black churches in North Carolina. She recalls lugging water from the ...