"What does it mean to be freed?" one child asked a parent. "Were people really that mean?" a mother recalled her children saying. Amid the parades, pageants, carnivals and cookouts for Juneteenth, a holiday...

  Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest Professor of the Humanities and director of the Program in African American Studies, discusses the history of Juneteenth and the importance of marking the holiday. What is...

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Langley delivers a speech onboard amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), during the Fleet Week New York reception ceremony in the hangar bay,...

President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore, back, help Herman Shaw, 94, a Tuskegee Syphilis Study victim, during a news conference on May 16, 1997. A New York-based philanthropy is apologizing...

The Jan. 6 committee investigating the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol held its first primetime public hearing on Thursday night — the first of six that lawmakers hope will reveal what...

Former President Donald Trump seemed to support threats from rioters to hang the former vice president during the attack on the Capitol, saying “Mike Pence deserves it,” House Jan. 6 committee...

Former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin wrote a powerful essay about last week's massacre at a Texas elementary school and the media's handling of mass shootings. Baldwin, who departed the network in 2021...