This slave mentality was made particularly evident by the spies’ statement “we were like grasshoppers in our eyes, and so we ...

Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of ...

President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, ...

Juneteenth celebrates the fall of slavery in the U.S. At the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit, visitors heard from descendants of slaves.

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations — marking the end of slavery in the U.S. — goes back to an order issued as Union ...