The holiday has long served as a reminder of D.C.’s lack of statehood. Trump’s attacks on policies and ideology promoting ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

D.C. Emancipation Day celebrations continue, with a parade, festival, and concert commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

Emancipation Day marks the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia on April 16, 1862. More than 3,000 enslaved ...

Thousands celebrate DC Emancipation Day with a parade, live entertainment, and fireworks, marking the 20th anniversary of the public holiday.

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

The case is the first challenge to the new administration's policies that the justices have taken up for public discussion.

History has repeatedly shown that moments of major social and political progress are often followed by backlash. For example, ...

American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. However, while that may be true in ...

Port Royal is concerned about the number trees slated for removal but a hospital spokesperson says the trees are diseased and ...