Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to abolish enslavement. Juneteenth commemorates the day (June 19th, 1865) Union ...

The United States is alive and well 249 years after the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and that’s a great thing to ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Photo: Getty Images North America Over 200 years after Frederick Douglass questioned “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin just broke the auction sales record for any document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Citadel ...

Last Friday we celebrated the Fourth of July, which is remembered as the date the Declaration of Independence was signed. But while the Declaration has more flowery language and lots of ringing ...

Article courtesy of NewsOne Staff With the Supreme Court’s latest decision involving birthright citizenship, its important to ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.