Why does Florida celebrate Emancipation Day on May 20th? Neighborhood reporter Ashley Engle explores the state’s unique ...

Juneteenth, marking the end of slavery, is a US federal holiday. President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation changing the legal status of slaves to free people on Jan. 1, 1863, but the war between the Union and Confederacy would go on for ...

Celebrating the freedom of enslaved Africans in Florida highlighted a Florida Emancipation Day event at a Black museum in southeast Gainesville.

He used that point to illustrate the importance of keeping alive the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Lincoln issued on Jan. 1, 1863. The executive order gave freedom to ...

The event featured a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation from Brian Bibeau, who's been long involved in the event, who portrayed Brigadier General McCook. Attendees joined to commemorate May ...

The city will celebrate Juneteenth this year under the theme of freedom and unity, according to the Juneteenth Community Collaboration Committee. Juneteenth is known as the final Independence Day for ...

The news came two and half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and more than two months after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered at ...

On June 19, 1865, 160 years ago, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned that slavery had been abolished in Confederate states with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation – more than ...

University Ave. The event will feature a “flag-raising ceremony and a proclamation recognizing Florida’s actual emancipation date — May 20, 1865 — when Africans in Tallahassee first ...

Leon County and the city of Tallahassee announced service changes and closings, but also events, for May 20 in observation of Florida's Emancipation Day. This year marks the fifth time since Leon ...

Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1, 1863 order. The Truth Behind the Legend of King Arthur National ...