On a day that commemorates the moment the last enslaved Americans finally learned they were free, Cleveland paused to honor ...

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Catholic churches are celebrating the national holiday of Juneteenth this week by honoring the freedom won by formerly ...

For decades, African Catholics have felt their saints have been sidelined. The continent is home to some of the ...

The word at the sixth annual Juneteenth Festival in New Orleans on Thursday was heritage. Among the throngs who gathered in ...

The rebuilding of one of the nation's oldest Black churches, whose congregants first gathered outdoors in secret before ...