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Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and its name stems from the date the historic event occurred: June 19, 1865. On that day, the 250,000 African Americans still enslaved ...

It’s funny. When you dig into the lyrics of a particular song, you might be stunned by what they say. For example, one of the sweetest-sounding songs we hear as a child is the nursery rhyme, ...

If you are familiar with the Christmas classic by Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, you know that Ebenezer Scrooge is the ...

Each March in the U.S. and elsewhere, we honor the role women have played in society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women’s ...

The fictional character Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was created by Robert L. May, a Long Island, New York-born writer. May was born in 1905 and died in 1976. He was raised in a Jewish section of ...

In celebration of Black history, TODAY asked various celebrities, rising stars, chefs and politicians: What does Black history mean to you — and how do you celebrate or honor Black culture? This ...