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President Obama Celebrates 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment

By Janelle Berry Special to the NNPA News Wire from the HU News Service WASHINGTON โ€“ Ask Americans what the Emancipation Proclamation is and most who know of President Abraham Lincolnโ€™s executive order will respond like 20-year-old Ebony Harris, a student of Howard University from Chicago, Ill., and say, โ€œIsnโ€™t that the thing that freed […]

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