Slavery Abolition

A student group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is calling for the school to remove its popular Abraham Lincoln statue, saying the president who is known as the "Great Emancipator" is a symbol of racism.The statue has sat atop the university's Bascom Hill for more than a century and is…

Protestors in Washington want a statue of Abraham Lincoln removed - not the famous one on the National Mall but a bronze memorial statue in nearby Lincoln Park called the Emancipation Memorial.It depicts the former president standing over a kneeling African American man who is newly freed from slavery.Hundreds of…

A black man carrying a sign for a black history tour sharply criticized protesters who had threatened to tear down a statue of Abraham Lincoln freeing a slave in Washington, D.C. Friday night. The Emancipation Memorial has been the subject of the ire of protesters – who argue the statue…

John Avlon is a senior political analyst at CNN. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN)More than 155 years after the end of the Civil War, America is finally having a more complete moral reckoning with the Confederacy. The issue is the…

Jamelle’s column today is absolutely right on. Neither Abraham Lincoln nor the Republican Party freed the slaves. They helped set freedom in motion and eventually codified it into law with the 13th Amendment, but they were not themselves responsible for the end of slavery. They were not the ones who…

President Donald Trump’s plan to hold a campaign rally today in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was roundly condemned earlier this week. Not only would it be held at the site of a racist massacre of Black people, but it was also being held on Juneteenth. Trump backed off of the plan after…

Juneteenth is one of the most important days in American history — and celebrities are using their platforms to remind their fans of just that. The holiday falls on June 19 each year and commemorates the end of slavery in America in 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln passed…

Courtesy of Google Google marked the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth with a new Doodle on Friday (June 19). In the video clip, LeVar Burton narrates the lyrics to classic hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing," colloquially known as the Black national anthem. "Lift ev'ry voice and sing/ 'Til Earth and…

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that Juneteenth - the 19 June date which marks the end of US slavery - will become an official holiday.It comes as millions of Americans plan to commemorate, with marches and personal observances, the 1865 date when the last US slaves…

President Trump credited himself on Wednesday for bringing attention to the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States after he first scheduled a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., that day, then moved it to a day later after objections from African-Americans.“I did something good: I made Juneteenth…