Oklahoma State Senator Nikki Nice advocates for recognizing Juneteenth as a state holiday, citing Oklahoma's historic ties. Learn about the continuing effort, despite federal acknowledgment.

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

U.S. federal holiday is a designated public holiday established by federal law that is recognized across the United States. On these days, federal government offices, banks, and many businesses close, ...

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that former Mayor Jim Kenney didn't have the authority to replace Columbus Day with ...

Former Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney violated the City Charter in 2021 when he signed an executive order to rename Columbus ...

The event takes place at the graveside of three of the people emancipated on Aug. 8, 1863. These three formerly enslaved ...

He may only be 11, but Roy Bishop III, of Grosse Pointe Woods, is already following in the public service footsteps of his ...

Concession workers at Fenway Park may go back on strike—potentially indefinitely—if food and beverage vendor Aramark doesn’t ...

If it get to the point where we — like France and Denmark — end up seriously considering cutting a holiday, my vote is for ...

Let’s call this what it is. The sudden release of over 230,000 pages of FBI files on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — two years ahead of schedule — is not about transparency. It’s a calculated, racially ...

Nearly a full month removed from Chantal's significant flooding, victims in Orange County have a new way to seek individual ...

Joe Biden is staffed by only one or two aides. He holes up for hours at a time in Delaware working on his memoir with a new ...