ABOUT URCNYS The Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State is a network of organizations, historic sites and community partners dedicated to preserving, interpreting and promoting the history ...

The Freedom 250 Mobile Museum is designed to bring American history to communities across the country in 2026.

WASHINGTON, DC ‒ National civil rights leaders and other activists, including college students, rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to push back against efforts to ban some books and ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

As the United States enters its 250th year, Freedom 250, the national organization announced by President Donald J. Trump, to lead America’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MARKHAM, Ill. – A south suburban city ...

The History Colorado Center is among a select group of eight museums across the country chosen by the National Archives and ...

MARKHAM, Ill. (WLS) -- Before moving to Chicago in 1963, he traveled across the Deep South, playing a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s. Miller Green was a Freedom Rider, a ...

1. “The 4th of July was never about Black people. Juneteenth is just for us. As Black people, we are told we don’t deserve our own holidays rooted in our own history. Everything is whitewashed.

A new production dramatizes the creation of the nation’s first paramedic-staffed ambulance service and connects past public ...