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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 person based on the color of their skin. Into the 1960s, a Black or Latino ...

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 ...

Sublime Systems’ vision for creating a high-tech, low-carbon cement factory in Holyoke suffered a setback when the Trump administration’s Department of Energy canceled an $87 million award for ...

Trump directives hobbling parks as visitation climbs, critics say Yosemite scientists diverted to campground toilet cleanup duty Parks watchdog group warns thin workforce puts tourists at risk ...

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