This led to the Three-Fifths Compromise; white and other free people would be counted as whole persons, and enslaved Black individuals would be counted as three-fifths of a person for state ...

Plenty of Juneteenth events have already been celebrated in Philadelphia and the region, but there are many more coming up.

As the annual Wawa Welcome America festival approaches, organizers have announced FREE programming from the 16-day festival leading up to the main event on July 4. From June 19 to ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

According to local legend, the old white sea captain and the enslaved young Black man planted in the grounds of the Moffatt-Ladd House a horse chestnut from Philadelphia, to commemorate the signing.

Washington, DC, is set to mark the 50th anniversary of Pride celebrations in the nation’s capital this weekend by hosting World Pride 2025.

OAKLAND — The country was still six decades away from recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday when Barbara Lee first ...

Organizers of the "No Kings" demonstrations and local officials urged demonstrators to stay home from planned protests in ...

In the winter of 1773, 29-year-old Dinah Nevil, a woman with Indigenous, African, and European ancestry, arrived in Philadelphia with her young children and made a remarkable claim — one that set her ...