But Emancipation Day is more than a historical ... While controversial today, the act stands as a complicated but powerful symbol of justice inching forward. For the Black residents of D.C ...

A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will mark D.C. Emancipation Day on Sunday, April 13. It's free to attend. Grammy winner Anthony Hamilton, NAACP Image Award winner Chanté Moore ...

However, what is rarely taught is that the primary reason France presented the gift was in appreciation of American emancipation. In 1886, the Statue of Liberty was a symbol of democratic government ...

“Jab Jab is freedom. Jab Jab is a post-emancipation masquerade,” says Ian Charles, CEO and Founder of Jambalasee Grenada, a group committed to documenting and preserving Grenada’s Jab Jab ...

For many area civic leaders, the office tower has become a symbol of Midtown’s broader ... Coleman also came up with the idea that became One Emancipation Center. Midtown did buy hundreds ...

President Lincoln Signs Emancipation Proclamation, American... President Abraham Lincoln writes the Emancipation Proclamation, issued September 22, 1862, freeing all slaves as of January 1, 1963, ...

As we experience what seems like a rerun of the Cold War—with Russia once again a hostile dictatorship—it may be hard to remember that Russia and the U.S. were once warmly supportive of each ...

He’ll talk about Nova Scotia’s Africville, a one-time African-Canadian settlement that was removed but serves as a symbol of the defence of Black culture; Owen Sound’s Emancipation Festival; and Goree ...

As the embodiment of emancipation, her most famous portrayal is in Eugène ... the Phrygian cap became seared into the visual memory of the French Revolution. The Phrygian cap as a symbol of ...