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Four short years after the recognition of a holiday commemorating freedom, it feels like Black people are less free.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

States are now more involved in tracking student data, but with the extent of a federal role increasingly less clear, the ...

Jim Crow laws, upheld by the Supreme Court in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, made it perfectly legal to discriminate against a ...

Offices, programs and summer feeding sites for Sapulpa and Tulsa will be closed Thursday in observance of Juneteenth. #oklaed ...

The New York Mets head into 10 straight games against NL East rival Atlanta and Philadelphia after getting swept in a series ...

Right-hander Logan Gilbert will be activated from the 15-day injured list and start for the Seattle Mariners on Monday ...

President Donald Trump wants to cancel $9.4 billion in spending already approved by Congress. The package of 21 budget ...

Doechii didn't pull any punches while accepting a BET Award about her thoughts on Trump and ICE's protest response in Los Angeles: 'What type of government is that?' ...

The rapper Doechii accepted the BET award for best female hip-hop artist on Monday night, but instead of using her acceptance speech as a victory lap, she criticized President Trump for deploying ...

Doechii used her BET win to criticize President Trump's use of military force to respond to protests against ICE raids in Los Angeles.