WASHINGTON -- A shooting near an unpermitted concert Sunday evening left a 15-year-old boy dead and several others wounded, according to police in Washington, DC. Several hundred people had gathered ...

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, May 29, 2025 / EINPresswire.com / -- Washington Revels is announcing a series of free, family-friendly concerts and events to commemorate the end of slavery in America ...

On June 19, 1865, news of the Emancipation Proclamation reached Galveston, Texas, and the last enslaved people in America were freed. Join the DMV community in celebrating the historic event at a ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — Hundreds of people in Anacostia started a new tradition this Juneteenth holiday, celebrating a piece of Black DC history with a freedom walk. Thursday, the group walked ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of people are expected to walk across the 11th Street Bridge on Juneteenth to commemorate the 1852 Freedom Walk across the Anacostia River. Melani N. Douglass is one of the ...

Juneteenth, a national holiday marking the end of slavery in the United States, is Sunday. Two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, news of liberation reached 250,000 enslaved ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — In June, a first-of-its-kind Honor Flight took off from Atlanta, carrying special heroes on a trip to Washington. This was a Juneteenth Honor Flight, specifically to honor African ...