A story is told of a city in an ancient world that was so confident in her own impregnability, industry and incandescence as a city on a hill that not once but twice in her history she let down ...
Kentucky’s governor has a close adviser who held the job before him. And has known him all his life. Gov. Andy Beshear, now in his second term after first taking office in 2019, was preceded by ...
In American politics, no state punches above its weight more than Iowa. With a long-standing tradition of being first in the nation’s presidential primary contests, the Hawkeye State has been ...
Ahead of Juneteenth, the White House hosted a concert to recognize the meaning of the holiday and celebrate the contributions of Black Americans. How does the Electoral College work? Here's what ...
Three years after it was made a federal holiday, Juneteenth 2024 marks a day of celebration as well as education. The federal holiday known as “Second Independence Day,” marks the day the last ...
Today is Juneteenth, the newest federal holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. Here's everything you need to know about the holiday from what will be closed today and why ...
SEATTLE — Juneteenth, short for June nineteenth, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans. Juneteenth National Independence Day is ...
WASHINGTON — For more than one-and-a-half centuries, the Juneteenth holiday has been sacred to many Black communities. It marks the day in 1865 enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they ...