Opalka Gallery's "Light and Transient Causes" invites viewers to explore memory, injustice and resilience through ...

Piece Set for Research PresentationsGroup Work / Workshop StyleWe revised the work regulations. We set up a consultation desk. We formulated a human rights policy. We conducted training. So, did the ...

U.S. newspapers included war dispatches along with Lincoln’s Sept. 22, 1862, proclamation.

Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1, 1863 order.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester City Council has signed a proclamation that Rochester will continue to use the name Lake Ontario in all official local capacities, despite President Donald Trump’s ...

Gov. Josh Green today signed a proclamation declaring a state of emergency for Hawaii ahead of Tropical Storm Lala. Forecasters have predicted the storm will become a hurricane as it nears Hawaii ...

Throughout the English-speaking Caribbean—and in Canada—Aug. 1 is observed as the day the British Empire’s official abolition of slavery took effect in 1834. But as former British colonies mark ...

Jimothy the Raccoon — Seattle’s “newest local icon” — will soon be honored with an official City Proclamation in Ballard. City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck announced on social media that you ...

Jimothy the compact raccoon has grabbed Seattle and beyond by its trash-panda paws, capturing the attention of millions, including City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck. Rinck said Friday evening ...

The museum under the Lincoln Memorial had been displaying borrowed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment for this year’s 250th anniversary celebration of the nation’s founding.

Bedrock civil rights milestones are at risk of withering away under the Trump administration—including in the physical sense. Hot conditions in a new National Park Service exhibit under the Lincoln ...

As he worked on an adaptation of some of America’s essential documents over the past few years, cartoonist R. Sikoryak says one element of the ongoing American experiment became clear. “I rewatched ...