A THREE-Day Emancipation Festival will unfold in Region Five this week to commemorate the abolition of slavery in Guyana. A liberation event will be held on ...

AS Guyana prepares to mark Emancipation Day in just three days, a stretch of Main Street in Georgetown has already come alive with the vibrant colours, ...

Vice President Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang inaugurated the 17th edition of PANAFEST and Emancipation Day 2025, a ...

I don’t begrudge anyone enjoying a day off and a cookout, but it’s hard not to see the holiday as an underused opportunity to teach and learn about the history of Black labor.

That's right: Emancipation Day is the day after the standard federal tax filing deadline of April 15. But because D.C. holidays affect tax deadlines the same way federal holidays do, Emancipation ...

The Emancipation Day picnic was packed with community spirit, featuring a vibrant lineup of Black-owned businesses, live music, and food.

Dear Editor, As we commemorate Emancipation Day on August 1 — the anniversary of the abolition of chattel slavery in the ...

An inaugural gospel sing-off will headline this year’s Emancipation Vigil ceremony in Montego Bay, St James, as part of ...

He called Emancipation Day “a big step,” but only one step toward solving a larger institutional problem. “They need to take the leap that Blacks were equally human to whites.

The first D.C. Emancipation Day parade was delayed by the “body blow” of Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, Gibbs said, but celebrations happened in the black church community, as well as on ...

Aug. 1 is Emancipation Day. But the end of British slavery didn’t mean freedom. The British conception of emancipation cemented imperialism and vast exploitation instead of ending it ...

Thursday was a city holiday — Emancipation Day — marking the 153rd anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia. While the rest of the city went about its business, D.C ...