A Bold Act of Remembrance The first Memorial Day wasn’t created by Congress or a president—it was born from the determination of newly freed African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina. On May 1, ...

Blight's suspicions were confirmed when after a talk he gave at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in 2001, an older Black woman approached him to discuss his lecture ...

Blight, newly freed African Americans who had fought in the Civil War adorned soldiers’ graves in 1865, marking the first Memorial Day on record. Blight’s 2001 book “Race and Reunion ...

It often seems that Memorial Day was invented by manufacturers of outdoor cooking supplies, and for many Americans — if not most of them — the last Monday in May is only about gathering the ...

New Orleans celebrated the repatriation and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to ...

Juneteenth is the next federal holiday. Here's everything to know about the celebration, plus when it is and what it celebrates.

On Monday, May 26, there was a powerful Memorial Day ceremony held on a hilly wedge of green land carved amid the gargantuan Palisades Mall near Dick’s Sporting Goods, in West Nyack.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson marked Memorial Day with a social media post wishing followers a Happy Africa Day.