A group gathered at sunrise on Buckroe Beach in Hampton, Va. for a traditional Libation Ceremony on Friday, June 16, 2023. Libations use a universal prayer and are considered one of the oldest African ...

HAMPTON — Under a red sun, seagulls’ calls and the scent of burning sage wafted past foamy waves breaking on the warm Buckroe Beach sand just after dawn Friday. Occasionally echoed by music from a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tuesday marks Emancipation Day, which celebrates the day when enslaved people in Tennessee were freed. According to the Tennessee State Museum, Andrew Johnson persuaded ...

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Terrell Freeman, right, raises a cup of water during the Libation Ceremony. The Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum held a renaming ceremony & remembrance of Maryland’s 160th Emancipation Day Friday.

Hoyas Advocating for Slavery Accountability (HASA) held a libation ceremony Nov. 5 to honor the unrecognized victims of enslavement whose unpaid labor built Georgetown University. The event was held ...

A ceremony honoring 1944 West Loch disaster victims was held Wednesday at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl. Delisa Smith, LaTonya Conkleton, Carole Reynoles and Tierra Brown ...