It’s no secret that Texas has often served as a testing ground for right-wing, white supremacist ideology in the U.S. Lesser known, however, is the history of Texas serving as a profound site of ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about plantations when she came across the story of a raid that freed more than 700 ...

The Trump administration is skirting a federal law by finding new namesakes for the bases with the same last names as ...

While some states have acknowledged Juneteenth in symbolic ways or through commemorative events, others have chosen to mark ...

Many banks will be closed on Thursday for Juneteenth, though ATMs and online banking will still be available. Major banks ...

Like with most federal holidays, the U.S. Post Office will be closed on Thursday, June 19, 2025, for Juneteenth. Both UPS and FedEx will be open for delivery and pickup services on Juneteenth. Both ...

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

Fort Lee is now named for Pvt. Fitz Lee. The new namesake was a Buffalo Soldier who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom more than two years after the ...

Edda Fields-Black was working on a book about rice plantations when she came across the story of a raid in Beaufort that ...

Fifty-two Black veterans of the Civil War are buried at Providence's North Burial Ground. They will be honored June 21 as the ...