This week in Akron history, a tavern keeper died, a famous daughter paid a visit, Goodyear prepared to expand and West Point ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

The 2025 Eighth of August festivities in Paducah will run through Sunday, several of them hosted by the W.C. Young Community ...

ALTON - Alton has a long-standing Juneteenth Celebration tradition and the Juneteenth Committee is already in preparation for ...

Her accounts of this and other unfair lynchings infuriated some whites. Her pamphlet, “Southern Horror: Lynch Law in All Its ...

Abraham Lincoln sits in hallowed stone silence on the National Mall, revered as the savior of the Union and the liberator of ...

The Human Rights Commission and the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County have partnered for the 5th year to ...

What maybe the first ever celebration of the “Eighth of August” in Sevier County is taking place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7 at the Williams Family Seymour Branch Library.

While many were gearing up for today’s parties — a Rise and Shine tramp followed by the August Monday parade — others were ...