After months of infighting that exposed deep fractures within the Virginia GOP, the party’s three statewide candidates ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

We commonly forget that the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech far beyond what is tolerated by our ...

The Pentagon said it's done with "political" ship naming. The move follows a number of name changes at US Army bases.

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021. For the last four years, Alabama’s current Republican governor, Kay Ivey, used her executive powers to designate Juneteenth as a state holiday. The ...

For the very first time, Alabamians are celebrating Juneteenth as an official state holiday. State offices were closed Thursday after Governor Ivey signed the new law last month. Juneteenth marks the ...

Government and state offices will be closed, as will the U.S. Post Office. That means there will be no mail delivery on Thursday and post offices will be closed for business. Mail delivery and ...

New Jersey was the last Northern state to abolish slavery, but Black settlements helped the enslaved find freedom long before ...

Juneteenth has held deep significance in many Black communities as a symbol of liberation and resilience. While it is now recognized as a federal holiday, only some states have followed suit in making ...

The gatherings were especially revolutionary because they were free of restrictive measures, known as “Black Codes,” enforced in Confederate ... freedom. In recent years, Juneteenth has become more ...

Juneteenth, marked each year on June 19, commemorates one of the final acts of emancipation of slaves in the U.S.

On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which effectively freed enslaved persons in the Confederate states during the Civil War.