Fannie Lou Hamer, American, 1917 - 1977 Diane Nash, American, born 1938 Unidentified Man or Men Unidentified Woman or Women Description A black-and-white digital image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A recent Columbia resident shares some family history, and a celebration committee member shares why Juneteenth is important.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore's mother told him that patience sometimes is a virtue, and sometimes it is a detriment. When it comes ...

Fight For Freedom Fund Dinner comes at a uniquely challenging time for the United States, the organization's president says.

Juneteenth marks the jubilant day in 1865 when many of the more than 250,000 people who were enslaved in Texas finally learned they were legally free. This deliberately delayed news was delivered by ...

On June 19, across the United States, Juneteenth was once again celebrated mdash;not merely as a federal holiday, but as a ...

Now in its West Coast premiere at Greenway Court Theatre, Greenwood 1964 brings to life a very specific moment in civil ...

Learn about the history behind Juneteenth National Independence Day, a federal holiday that honors the end of slavery in the U.S.

President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first term but now it's gone.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks before crowd of 25,000 in ...