Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

Before Juneteenth fades away in the rearview mirror, as yet another Republican president recklessly drives us toward yet ...

Voices: In the shadow of King's mountaintop “There are two reasons that we don’t talk about slavery: The first is it’s a subject that makes us have to face the ugliness of our history ...

Despite federal grant funding cuts, the Cooper Family Foundation held its annual celebration, which has been a part of the ...

Everyone’s talking about that incident on the Lincoln Memorial — But here’s what the Indigenous People’s March actually wanted the public to know Digital Originals. Lisa Chiu. @lisachiuster. A speaker ...

The article discusses the ongoing issue of slavery in Texas, the rescinding of asylum protection for people of color, and the need for young Progressives to fight for democracy and the Constitution.

As Juneteenth is being celebrated throughout the nation, many people may not know the true meaning of this pivotal day in ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of ...