Earlier this month, the TSSAA voted unanimously to fully sanction girls’ flag football, a move that paves the way for the sport's first official state championships.

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

Indianapolis celebrates Juneteenth while honoring local Black history and navigating political tensions around diversity.

Lawmakers passed a handful of bills aimed at easing access to guns as a new pediatric study links state legislation to ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

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

NYC has many ways to celebrate Juneteenth this year. Here's everything you need to know about the federal holiday.

Every community has a Juneteenth story about Black people being freed from oppression, but in the city of Sacramento, Juneteenth is in a kind of limbo. While Juneteenth is an official holiday in the ...

From Galveston to the Guggenheim, Black communities are gathering in joy—even as DEI gains, Black history and hard-won ...

This year brings the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, a major turning point in the fight to end slavery in the U.S.

A federal judge said Wednesday that prosecutors can proceed with a hate crime charge against a man accused of hurling Molotov ...

My heart aches for what I know the enslaved people had to deal with. They sacrificed so much,” said state Sen. John Lovick.