"President Trump has done his part, now Congress must do their part and pass legislation," a sheriff in a Texas border town told Newsweek.

As Charleston marks the 10-year anniversary of one of the nation's most horrific hate crimes, the community looks back and ...

People of faith gathered again at Mother Emanuel AME on Tuesday just like they did 10 years ago, searching for God’s truth ...

A job in a prison kitchen apparently helped Grant Hardin, a former police chief serving time for murder and rape, plot his ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and ...

Most of Mildred Howard’s works are powerful but subtle evocations of African American history. One will be at 500 Capp Street.

Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...

It has now been a decade since nine people were killed after a mass shooting at a historically Black South Carolina church.

A majority says immigrants living in the U.S. should be allowed to stay if they meet requirements, while 31% favor a national deportation effort.

That answer made it plain that in Maine, at least, Emancipation Day (April 16) carried a historical weight that the Texan ...

It is Juneteenth week! The holiday recognizes the summer day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas and ...

Chalk up another cherished American symbol that has quietly vanished under Donald Trump’s watch. A bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once prominently ...