History

A year in planning, the new large-scale event at ArtsQuest teaches people what Juneteenth is about.

Tredyffrin-Easttown was the site of historic segregation fight.

After the social unrest prompted by the murder of George Floyd, some are asking: Is it finally time for the U.S. to establish a Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

The Painted Bride Art Center has created citywide scavenger hunt contest, using Philadelphia’s lesser-known locations of Black, Asian, and queer history.

Rev. David Brown writes about the formation of the #JuneteenthChallenge and what he learned during a month of intentional patronage of Black businesses and institutions.

Juneteenth is celebrated annually on the 19th of June to mark the date some of the last enslaved people in the Confederacy became free.

The 415-14 House vote follows Tuesday's unanimous approval in the Senate to federally recognize the holiday. All 14 no votes in the House came from Republicans.

New Jersey will celebrate Juneteenth as a state holiday for the first time this year, joining dozens of states in observing the day in some fashion.

As a bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday moves through Congress, organizers say Philadelphia should host the country’s official celebration.

What did the Pentagon Papers teach us about government secrecy, press freedom and the Vietnam war? And, Trump's DOJ surveillance of Democratic lawmakers and journalists.

The African American Museum in Philadelphia will hold a special events series to mark Juneteenth and the Fourth of July.

An exhibition of flags and documents at the Museum of the American Revolution traces the national evolution on issues of race and religion.

A nonprofit is purchasing the decaying Walnut Street house where Martin Luther King Jr. lived when he was denied service at a Maple Shade bar in 1950.

The Lovings had committed what Virginia called unlawful cohabitation. Their marriage was deemed illegal because Mildred was Black and Native American; and Richard was white.

From Quaker house parties to the black-and-brown striped flag.