Revelers enjoyed live entertainment and fellowship in Central Park on Saturday at the 31st annual Juneteenth celebration.

Richmond Heights announced it will be hosting its Juneteenth celebration at Greenwood Farm park, 264 Richmond Road, on June ...

Yet it’s a commemoration going back 160 years. It marks the end of the last pocket of slavery, when Union troops arrived in ...

Jolly’s political evolution spans what he describes as “a period of about 10 years,” moving from registered Republican to ...

The rare document could fetch $8 million.

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

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As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...

January 31, 1865 – Congress passes the 13th Amendment. February 1, 1865 – Lincoln, in a symbolic gesture, signs the 13th Amendment a little more than two months before his death. His assassin ...

But it was another six months before the last two states—Delaware and Kentucky—freed enslaved people, and only when the 13th Amendment was ratified on Dec. 18, 1865. The 13th Amendment ...