Analysis - Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist system of apartheid during white minority rule. She was ...

Analysis - Louis Tebugo Moholo-Moholo was born in St Monica's Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa on 10 March 1940. He'd not have appreciated that introduction, once chastising an interviewer: ...

Juneteenth, combining June and nineteenth, is a day that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It marks the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom, two years ...

Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the US, is observed with festivals and events, though the current political ...

It is encircled by another white starry line that represents the spreading of freedom. Aside from barbecue, the color red has been a through line for Juneteenth food for generations.

Isabella Aldrete, the Nevada Independent It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been ...

Indianapolis celebrates Juneteenth while honoring local Black history and navigating political tensions around diversity.

Green represents richness of the land in Africa. More people, however, have leaned into the Juneteenth flag created in 1997 by activist Ben Haith, who founded the National Juneteenth Celebration ...