For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history's darkest chapters with joy — such as parades or ...

UCF has recruited new players, including Riley Kugel, B.J. Freeman, Themus Fulks, and Jamichael Stillwell, to rebuild the roster. Dawkins believes that while money is a factor in recruiting ...

Dr Emily Watson paid a moving tribute to her partner - the Rev'd Capt Katie Watson - following an inquest which ruled she had ...

Welcome to my first Mailbag since May 14, which means I haven’t had a chance to weigh in on the approval of the House ...

Isabella Aldrete, the Nevada Independent It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,” ...

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed — two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

It hit the top 10 in April 1968, the week the Rev. Martin Luther King was murdered ... an event that inspired an 11,000-word story in The New Yorker. Sly and Silva soon divorced.

The resulting Juneteenth holiday — its name combining “June” and “nineteenth” — has only grown in one-and-a-half centuries.