Every seat was filled during the Knott House Museum's Emancipation Day celebration and reenactment May 20. The event featured a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation from Brian Bibeau, who's been ...

In Milledgeville, over 100 gathered to mark the Emancipation Proclamation's anniversary, reflecting on its enduring impact and the ongoing journey toward equality.

On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...

It's the 160th anniversary of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, which occurred more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Word reached Florida’s ...

The Tuscaloosa Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance celebrated the Emancipation Proclamation. That stroke of the pen by President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in America on New Year’s Day 163 ...

“Black history is our history. This is our time to serve, and this is our time to be a part of our own history. Starting in Charleston,” Crawford says. “We were enslaved and brought here; now we are ...

The public announcement and implementation of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was fraught with political and policy implications. Lincoln had decided to issue the proclamation—effectively ...

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The U.S. Postal Service marked the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation by issuing a limited edition stamp that will go on sale Wednesday at post offices nationwide, NBC Washington ...

On New Year’s Eve, approximately 100 people gathered at Historic First Baptist Church for a Watch Night service to recognize ...

The public is invited to Peterboro, in Madison County, on Wednesday for a New Year’s Eve event commemorating the issuing of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Events run ...