RICHMOND, Va. — A powerful Juneteenth commemoration brought together families with a complex shared history as descendants of enslaved people met with descendants of those who enslaved their ...

OUR TED WAYMAN IS IN CHARLESTOWN. THESE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. THEY SAY THEIR RELATIVES ARE AMERICAN HEROES. I THINK ABOUT MY FIFTH GREAT GRANDFATHER ...

Mayor Monroe Nichols IV, elected mayor in November, says the trust would be used to provide scholarships and housing to the descendants of those impacted by the massacre. He clarified that the ...

Only one of those tribes, the Cherokee Nation, continues to fully grant the rights of citizenship. For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of ...

For descendants of people who were enslaved by tribal nations, Juneteenth is both a celebration of freedom for people of African descent and a reminder of their struggle to be fully embraced by ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma are still fighting for full citizenship in the ...

Frances Tyler spent the summer reading the 175-year-old letters written by her ancestors. Tyler, 23, is the great-great-granddaughter of John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, and ...