Every year, marching bands bustle up Pennsylvania Avenue to Freedom Plaza just around the corner from the White House, where a day of celebration is capped by a concert and the colorful burst of ...

Friday marks D.C.’s 159th Emancipation Day, a day which is taught as being the first step toward freeing enslaved Black people in the U.S. But the history and legacy surrounding Emancipation Day is ...

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day in the midst of the Civil War that came after decades of effort ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local ...

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia celebrates Emancipation Day on April 16. On that day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act. With its ...

Free at last: This illustration, “Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia by the Colored People, in Washington, April 19, 1866,” by Frederick Dielman, was published in ...

Celebrations are underway this weekend to mark the signing of the D.C. Compensated Emancipation Act on April 16, 1862, which was the beginning of the end of slavery in America. The District’s annual ...

It may have been overcast during most of Saturday, but that didn’t seem to damper the spirits of the thousands of people who gathered at the Freedom Plaza to celebrate the 157th anniversary of ...

An 1866 illustration of the celebration of the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C., from Harper’s Weekly (Library of Congress) Happy about having a few more days to file your 2015 state and ...

Despite the pall of COVID-19 hanging over the nation’s capital, where more than 2,100 people have tested positive for the virus, 72 have died (as of April 15) and with most residents cooped inside, ...

Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local history that surprised her. She learned that in April 1862, President ...