The Mississippi legal code recognizes 10 holidays ranging from the traditional ones like Christmas, Thanksgiving and Veterans Day.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

We don't need to party like it's 1865. But we can celebrate the end of slavery with America's greatest abolitionist.

In 2021, then-president Joe Biden signed a bill that made Juneteenth an official federal holiday. This historic legislation ...

What started as an effort to promote racial unity in Edenton by reconsidering its most prominent downtown symbol has done the ...

FILE - Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. displays pictures of three civil rights workers, who were slain in Mississippi the summer before, from left Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and ...

The CIA has released 1,500 pages of previously classified documents relating to the assassination of New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. The documents released Thursday reveal Kennedy met with the CIA ...

Juneteenth – which was recognised as a federal holiday in 2021 – now more widely represents the emancipation of enslaved African Americans across the country in the wake of the US Civil War and its ...

The new pope's childhood home in Dolton has drawn visitors from across the country, with many treating it as a pilgrimage ...

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis' successor, the new ...