Juneteenth, the June 19th federal holiday that commemorates the end of America’s slavocracy and celebrates freedom for African Americans, comes this year amidst diminishing respect for the ...

The trees around the African American Civil War Memorial have been trimmed, and the grass is freshly cut and cleared of trash. Several leaks have been fixed. But a few of the 209,145 names of ...

Smith has been working toward this moment since 1992, when, as a DC Council member, he secured congressional permission to ...

The African American Civil War Memorial is located off U Street in Northwest DC and it features the names of more than 200,000 Black soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War.

Two members of U.S. Congress are among the supporters of a museum director’s campaign to upgrade a District of Columbia memorial-museum complex that highlights the contributions of Black ...

If the same number of Americans per capita had died in Vietnam as died in the Civil War, 4 million names would be on the Vietnam Memorial. The most immediate legacy of the Civil War was its ...

The African American Civil War Memorial in Washington. (Michael Robinson-Chavez/The Washington Post) Today, a wall looms large in my thoughts. It isn’t the structure President Trump has in mind ...

Kevin Douglass Greene stood Saturday in front of the bronze African-American Civil War Memorial and the tears began. Standing ramrod straight, the Army staff sergeant stood soldier to soldier with … ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865.

The first national observance was shortly after the American Civil War and was then called Decoration Day. Veterans decorated war graves with blooming flowers. FILE - A member of the Army visits ...

What are the origins of Memorial Day? The holiday's origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 ...