Thursday will mark 160 years since Union forces landed in Galveston with news that enslaved Texans had been emancipated more ...

Amid a flurry of civil rights and Title IX investigations, the Trump administration has reopened K-12 schools and ...

In the days leading up to Election Day, the House majority whip had campaigned across his home state pleading with South Carolinians to follow his lead, to vote for Joe Biden and his running mate ...

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned civil rights leader Marcus Garvey ... of the United States to lead and develop a mass movement,'" Biden said in a statement. "Advocates and lawmakers ...

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

Juneteenth, which is short for “June Nineteenth”, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday, which is also known as “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day,” honors the day in 1865 ...

The justices' 6-3 decision effectively protects from legal challenges many efforts by Trump's Republican administration and ...

Before President Joe Biden ... cement his civil rights legacy. In a recent interview with theGrio, the Rev. Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, is calling on Biden to issue ...

The Martin Luther King bust that sat in the Oval Office under the Barack Obama and Joe Biden presidencies has been moved by ...

Juneteenth, which is short for “June Nineteenth”, celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. The holiday, which is ...