A Juneteenth celebration in Melbourne, Florida will honor Balaam Allen, a formerly enslaved founder of the city. Allen, along with other freedmen, settled in Melbourne after the Civil War. Other ...
People in Melbourne joke that they often experience four seasons in one day. But on Sunday, all four seasons were set to ...
Balaam Allen was born enslaved, but years after the Emancipation Proclamation brought freedom, he found himself —along with two other Black freedmen and their wives — settling along the muggy banks of ...