Un/Bound: Free Black Virginians, 1619-1865,” tells stories from a variety of perspectives — personal, community and family.

Probing the incentives and institutions that kept slavery alive can help us value what freedom means.

A new exhibit at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture explores the often neglected stories of free Black Virginians spanning from the arrival of the first captive Africans in ...

Donald Trump’s new executive order pressures national park rangers to whitewash American history, turning honest storytelling ...

The first documented Africans to arrive in the English-speaking colony of what would become Virginia, arrived in August 1619 on the “White Lion,” a Dutch man-of-war ship carrying enslaved cargo ...

There are already far too many things that divide us, and calling Juneteenth a second Independence Day isn’t going to help.

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

For Juneteenth, USA TODAY is telling the stories of five different communities across the country where residents are ...

It may be that trying to undo a national holiday, particularly one as publicly embraced as Juneteenth, would be a harder sell ...

Juneteenth, celebrated every year on June 19, commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were ...

This story was part of a special Juneteenth project originally published in 2022 with Vox that explored the ongoing struggle ...