It's red, white and blue—and a proud symbol of African American history. Meet the Juneteenth flag. The post The Juneteenth ...

The Juneteenth flag, created by activist Ben Haith in 1997, has become a symbol to celebrate Black emancipation in the US. The flag features 3 symbols — a five-point star, a bursting star, ...

Designing the flag and its symbols was a deliberate process ... the country’s last remaining enslaved people that, under the Emancipation Proclamation issued two years earlier, they were ...

The day, which gets its name from combining June and 19, has long been celebrated by black Americans as a symbol of their long-awaited emancipation — but the story behind the holiday ...

While the Emancipation Proclamation is generally celebrated ... Strengthened by the U.S. military’s presence, some went so far as to destroy symbols of Confederate secession: trampling on ...

The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

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 ...

One of the features of the call, we observe, is that "emancipation immediate and unconditional is our best and only true policy." The Unionism of the State has settled firmly on that principle.