Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass misspoke Monday when she said of the rioters in her city that “people should exercise their right to protest; that’s their First ...

There is a long history of Juneteenth, including the Juneteenth flag, but to sum things up: Juneteenth celebrates the ...

Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum will honor Olympic athlete and sports activist John Carlos with its Lifetime Grand ...

Cook County Commissioner Tara Stamps wants June 6 to be recognized as Gun Violence Prevention Day in Cook County.

(CNN) — Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a ...

Hayden’s firing comes as libraries and archives are under siege nationwide by the Trump administration and factions of the ...

A group of 1965 Forest Park High School graduates is happy to dish on the secret to their remarkable, long-lasting connection ...

At 83, Paul Kuntzler, a pioneering LGBTQ rights activist, vividly recalls joining a picket line outside the White House that ...

If he were alive today, Martin Luther King, Jr. would certainly take pride in the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama. King would likely support the Obama administration on a whole host ...

A proposal stops short of officially renaming road after Trump, so his name may not appear on county maps like former ...

Dr. King famously said ... a federal policy and achieved historic advancements for Africa. And President Barack Obama’s administration, at my request and under Treasury Secretary Jack Lew ...

The last time a presidential inauguration landed on Martin Luther King Jr. day was in 2013 during former President Barack Obama’s inauguration. “We're also going to deliver today an ...