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A summer circus show, Father's Day, Pride Month and Juneteenth celebrations, and other June events in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte counties.

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you? These biographies for kids are inspirational narrative nonfiction texts that ...

Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were ...

“It took off like wildfire here,” says Mullan. “A lot of Irish people know the story now, and here were Native American people who needed our help.” Larry Mullen Jr., drummer for the Irish ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the ...

By Paul Grein If it seems as if Jennifer Lopez has been a part of the American Music Awards for decades, well, she has. Lopez was just 21 in 1991 when she made her AMAs debut as a dancer behind ...

Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the “atrocities” she says were committed at an upstate boarding school where Native American youths were forcibly separated from their families and ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a formal apology Tuesday for the state’s role in a boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of ...