Ken Griffin on Why He Spent $43 Million to Buy the U.S. Constitution
The Wall Street Journal· 3 hours agoInside the billionaire’s decision to outbid crypto investors for the rare document, which is...
How voters can abolish slavery forever in Tennessee this November | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 7 days agoOn Aug. 8, 1863, in Greeneville, Tennessee – over eight months after President Abraham Lincoln...
Juneteenth Fast Facts | News Channel 3-12
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 4 days agoHere is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the...
Corker leads Tennessee group urging 'yes' vote on anti-slavery amendment
Chattanooga Times Free Press· 3 hours agoFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Corker will lead a statewide, bipartisan coalition of elected leaders urging...
Hollywood comes to Civil War battlefield
Ft. Smith Southwest Times Record via Yahoo News· 13 hours agoAs Kennedy explains it, "The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863 but in Indian territory these men were fighting under the laws which did not go...
Blessed Sacrament Chapel held annual picnic
Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky. via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe picnic, traditionally held on the first Saturday of August, began as a celebration of the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, said Sister ...
Mabry-Hazen House hosts guided tours to commemorate Emancipation Day in Tennessee
WBIR-TV Knoxville· 1 day agoOn August 8, 1863, a group of enslaved African Americans in Greeneville, Tennessee, became free from...
'Onward and upward': Mary Eliza Church Terrell award is a special honor | Tompkins
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 4 days agoShe was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1863, the year of the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1909,...
Pitt County board unanimously approve animal shelter agreement with city
The Daily Reflector· 14 hours agoThe Pitt County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved an agreement that will make...
Eighth of August: Civil rights activist who took part in 1965 Selma march will be at Jubilee
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe significance of the Eighth of August is well known to Tennesseans of African American descent....