For decades, Texans have celebrated Juneteenth in recognition of the historic day in which enslaved people in Galveston were ...

“Kevin Powell is just an amazing guy with a great documentary and a down-to-earth way to talk about so many things in our world today,” said Michael Carter, the senior advisor to the president at ...

ATLANTA — A massive 70-member choir belted out "Hallelujah" at a Martin Luther King Jr ... and Barack Obama also were sworn in for their second terms on the holiday. MLK Day lands on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Today marks the 30th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day which was ... President Barack Obama took to Twitter to commemorate the day celebrating the history-making civil rights leader ...

Some 57 years after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., America remains just as ... Former President Barack Obama arrives at the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of ...

While former presidents Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton ... Trump marked the fact that his inauguration is occurring on Martin Luther King Jr. Day., saying in his speech that his ...