Palatine Library District is unveiling a new 8-by-7-foot freedom quilt that was completed in the library's makerspace, The Workshop. Members of the community came together in a big way to complete ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Unitarian Universalist Society of Geneva will host a special presentation on the secret messages sewn into pre-Civil War era quilts that pointed the way to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Connie Martin always knew who her ancestors were growing up. “There was a big picture of (her great-grandmother) in grandma Lizzie ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) will kick off World Pride in Washington, D.C., next month with a powerful statement elevating trans joy and resilience in the face of the current ...

Third-year in the College Justin Palmer decided to bring the Freedom Quilt Project to campus after hearing on the British Broadcasting Corporation about students’ efforts to make a freedom quilt at ...

Click to open image viewer. Quilter Jessie Telfair was inspired to make this quilt in the mid-1970’s as an expression and memorialization of her experiences during the Civil Rights Movement. In the ...