BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — "I’ve always believed that we need to be honest about our history, especially in the face of ongoing efforts to erase it. Darkness...
Dec. 31, 1862, then, would become the Watch Night of all Watch Nights. Ninety-nine days earlier, Pres. Abraham Lincoln had announced his intention to free people...
For the second year in a row, the organization could not hold Vallejo’s Annual Juneteenth Celebration due to COVID-19. AAFRC President Gwendolyn White says launching the...
Esteban was born in West Africa and sold into slavery in a Portuguese town on Morocco’s Atlantic coast.
Many people and performers came out to make this celebration possible. Oshalla Diana Marcus hosted and organized the celebration. The Marin City Community Services District (MCCDC),...
Also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, it commemorates the end of slavery, the seminal event in Black history.