Juneteenth became a time for both reflection and celebration, blending solemn remembrance with joyous expressions of culture and resilience. Activities often include community gatherings, historical ...

Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the ...

In an important change, President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard to protect marchers. State troopers and sheriff’s deputies had terrorized marchers, including John Lewis, who was ...

The poem is about priorities and purpose, introspection and self-care. It spoke to Moyers’ vulnerability and uncertainty. Its ...

The Jefferson County Historical Society will open “Patient No More: People with Disabilities Securing Civil Rights” on ...

An exhibit opening this weekend in Jacksonville features paintings by artist Rik Freeman of Washington, D.C., that depict ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a ...

A nonprofit civil rights advocacy group called Wednesday for hate crime charges to be brought against a woman accused of attacking another woman, who caught her defacing a painting of a ...

Commissioned by Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s administration, the statue honoring first Black woman to practice law in ...

People can share their opinions through July 9. The sculpture will be placed outside the Philadelphia Municipal Services ...

Grace Zhang, a Jericho eighth-grader, earned second place in ARTEFFECT, a national competition held by the Lowell Milken ...

Celebrated each year on June 19, Juneteenth commemorates the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were informed ...