It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

Whether you are related or not, everyone is family at Saturday’s Juneteenth Family Reunion. Celebrate the spirit of coming ...

Allen, 75, is not only a trailblazing artist, but also a champion of arts education — on screen (her most famous role is dance teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980 film Fame and its television adaptation ...

Charles Burrell, an American classical and jazz bass player known as being the first African American to be a member of a ...

Charles Burrell, the classical and jazz bass player and the first African-American member of a major American symphony, died ...

Charles Burrell, the classical and jazz bass player and the first African-American member of a major American symphony, died ...

Members of the African American Coalition said pairing Juneteenth with Dodge Park Thursdays allows the group to reach a wider audience.

She signed up for a genealogy workshop, hoping to better understand her background, and her health. What she found out was "shocking." ...

There historically have been tension between Black Americans and African immigrants. Can we put that to the side to stand ...

On this edition of In Black America, producer/host John L. Hanson Jr. speaks with Dyana Williams, veteran radio and ...

American Black Film Festival 2025 featured Gabrielle Union, Chris Paul, Ashanti, Blair Underwood and more in Miami Beach. See highlights from all three days.

This week marks the Juneteenth holiday, a day set aside to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the U.S.