"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic." ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

The summer air in Rochester, New York, hung thick with heat and celebration. It was July 5, 1852, a day after cannons had ...

A community group is set to bring together a series of speakers to discuss the subject of emancipation this month. Community ...

On this 176th anniversary of the emancipation of all the enslaved people in the Virgin Islands, The Daily News is reprinting an excerpt of the speech given by ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin just broke the auction sales record for any document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Citadel ...

In commemoration of Emancipation, Sankofa Bermuda, in collaboration with CURB, will hold an event titled Community Voices ...

For nearly two centuries, the Danish West Indies were entangled in the brutal Atlantic Slave Trade, which saw the forced ...