Abraham Lincoln — or at least the locomotive celebrating his memory — returned to Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Ill., ...

Dorothy McClerren, 96, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln in her daughter’s home to share her talents with Heartland Hospice workers ...

But it wasn’t long ago that Trump regularly made a point to mark Juneteenth, the holiday that honors the freeing of enslaved ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program earned a cash prize.

But on this year's Juneteenth holiday on Thursday, the usually talkative president kept silent about a day important to Black Americans for marking the end of slavery in the country he leads again ...

Mountain State residents celebrate another proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. On Jan. 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On June 20, 1863, he declared that Mountaineers are ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, even before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made it “famous.” ...

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday. He even claimed once to have made Juneteenth “very famous.” But on ...

Their freedom came more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln liberated slaves in the Confederacy by signing the Emancipation Proclamation during the Civil War.