A UChicago legal scholar examines how forced labor persists in U.S. prisons—and what it will take to change the system ...

Short for “June Nineteenth,” the holiday marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the ...

America's Second Independence Day is coming soon. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

Stacker examined historical documentation to explore Juneteenth's history and significance and to confute the most egregious ...

The results of the local government elections were a boon to government critics whose primary pre-occupation is nitpicking ...

A dangerous consequence of not knowing our history is not knowing our truth. Many Americans are taught that the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863, […] ...

June, marks the 120th anniversary of Dr N.M. Perera’s birth. N.M. was born in 1905, the year of the First Russian Revolution.

Democrats in the House and Senate will introduce a joint resolution Wednesday aimed at amending the 13th Amendment. Resistance builds against social media ban in Texas prisons In April ...

Here's how North Carolina members of Congress voted over the previous week.

Following the exploratory phase of his campaign this spring, David Jolly says he’s ready to go and has officially entered the ...