“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “ shot heard ‘round the world ” that began the American Revolution. Next year, ...

It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln and Stephen ... the nation's bitter argument over slavery, transform Lincoln into a contender for the presidency ...

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

Exactly 250 years ago today, ragtag Patriot militias engaged British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord in what would ...

Emancipation Day honors the work that led to president Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery in the district, freeing more than 3,000 people. LaToya Foster, the director of the Office of Cable Television ...

The holiday has long served as a reminder of D.C.’s lack of statehood. Trump’s attacks on policies and ideology promoting ...

In the Christian tradition, Easter is the incarnation of that hope, in the witness of the life, death and resurrection of ...