With Trump officials pushing to end diversity efforts, civil rights leaders and experts explain why Black organizations were ...

Juneteenth became a time for both reflection and celebration, blending solemn remembrance with joyous expressions of culture ...

Juneteenth, the nation's most recent federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery ...

A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to block transgender and nonbinary people from having ...

With federal funding slashed, libraries and museums across the country have been forced to find new ways to tell their stories ...

They both came of age in Danville in the 1960s. His father was a white publisher who took a stand on civil rights; her father was one of the city’s first Black reporters.

The Commercial Appeal quoted local and national civil rights leaders. It also covered goings-on in Danville’s Black neighborhoods.

1968— The United States Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. The deci­sion came in a case known as Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. The court used as its precedent ...

June 19 marks Juneteenth, a holiday that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. It became a ...