President Abraham Lincoln

Melissa Harris-Perry: The truth about the Emancipation Proclamation

VIDEO - On Saturday, 'Melissa Harris Perry' revisited the Emancipation Proclamation and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Lincoln, and for the enslaved people impacted -- or bypassed - by it...

New stamp celebrates Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary

Alexis Garrett Stodghill

theGRIO REPORT - The U.S. Postal service has released a limited-edition stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp...

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

Brett Zongker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming — his final proclamation declaring all slaves in states rebelling against the Union to be "forever free."...

Frederick Douglass: 'Black man in the White House'

Blair L.M. Kelley

theGRIO REPORT - On the 203rd anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth (he was born February 12, 1809), Professor Blair L.M. Kelley examines the historic relationship between America's 16th president, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass...

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President Abraham Lincoln

Melissa Harris-Perry: The truth about the Emancipation Proclamation

New stamp celebrates Emancipation Proclamation's 150th anniversary

Watch Nights mark Emancipation Proclamation 150th

Frederick Douglass: 'Black man in the White House'

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