The Chesapeake Sheriff’s Office recently announced a donation of two new cemetery markers to honor Afro-Union Civil War Soldiers.

Memorial Day began in the aftermath of ... For more than 10 days in late April, about two dozen free Black men dug proper graves and built a 10-foot-tall white fence around them.

Most Americans, 52%, believe Memorial Day has lost its original meaning ... communities in the North and South, Black and White, decorated soldiers’ graves with floral honors on springtime ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sparked outrage when he marked Memorial Day by posting a video to social ... where he bragged about staffing top positions with black people.

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen troops. But it's come to anchor the unofficial start of summer and retail discounts.

Logan issued the "Memorial Day Act." In a significant early event, Black freedmen and White allies in Charleston, S.C., honored Union dead on May 1, 1865. This gathering, held at the "Martyrs of the ...

Although roughly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army, the holiday in many communities would essentially become “white Memorial Day,” especially after the rise of the Jim Crow South, Railton ...

The question facing their children and grandchildren on Memorial Day 2025 is not so much whether ... The increasing influence of the Black Lives Matter movement, coupled with the “mostly ...

Although roughly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army, the holiday in many communities would essentially become “white Memorial Day,” especially after the rise of the Jim Crow South ...

It wasn’t until 1971 that Congress declared Memorial Day as a national holiday and designated it as the last Monday in May. “The day remained a popular community celebration where white and Black ...

Memorial Day doesn’t officially arrive until Monday ... shooting Street/Documentary photography as he sees it, usually in Black and White.