Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

The Underground Railroad was a clandestine system for slaves in America to find passage to freedom. There were trails to follow and people who could provide them with food and safe haven until they ...

ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) – A group of second graders in Isle of Wight County used their creativity to honor Black History Month. The students at Hardy Elementary School created a Freedom Quilt ...

SHERMAN — Harriet Tubman, Jackie Robinson, Kamala Harris and Martin Luther King Jr., are some of several dozen Black heroes studied by students at The Sherman School, as part of a month-long project ...

In Marion County, a group of women used needles and thread to offer a lesson in black history. Women from 2 East Texas churches have created the "freedom quilt" to tell the story of the underground ...

WASHINGTON — A one-day installation on the National Mall brought this year’s WorldPride theme — “the fabric of freedom” — to life, as hundreds of hand-stitched quilt panels created by trans artists ...

As he put together an exhibit of ceramic sculptures, quilts and paintings for Black History Month, art student Sean Beard of Cal State Northridge drew on his roots. “Mother Weep No More” at the campus ...

Two Navy veterans received Quilts of Valor Saturday morning during a presentation at the Lindale Mall, recognized by the Freedom Stitchers of Iowa.