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Juneteenth marks when enslaved people in Texas learned they had been freed under the Emancipation Proclamation.
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum via APJuneteenth is an annual celebration held on June 19 to commemorate the end of chattel slavery in America.
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Biden Wants To End For-Profit Immigrant Detention. His Administration Isn't So Sure National News
Since the campaign trail, President Biden has said he wants to close privately run immigrant detention centers. But immigrant advocates say his administration isn't following through on his promises.
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Why Geneva Is Teeming With Spies As Biden And Putin Prepare To Meet National News
Intelligence agencies from the U.S. and Russia are both trying to figure out what the other side is going to say, a longtime CIA operative says. China is probably trying to listen in, too.
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An Olympic Hopeful Blames A Burrito For Her Positive Drug Test National News
Shelby Houlihan says her positive test for the steroid nandrolone followed a visit to a food truck for a pork burrito, and is pointing to studies that show nandrolone occurs naturally in some pigs.
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Texas Democrats Are Pressing Their Congressional Counterparts To Expand Voting Rights National News
Texas Democrats last month staged a dramatic walkout that successfully — if temporarily — blocked Republicans from passing a restrictive voting measure for the state.
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Lina Khan, Prominent Big Tech Critic, Will Lead The FTC National News
The bipartisan vote in the Senate on Tuesday gives one of the most prominent skeptics of the tech industry a key role in shaping government regulation of the tech industry.
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The Limitations Of 'Latinidad': How Colorism Haunts 'In The Heights' National News
Film critic Monica Castillo reflects on the glaring absence of Afro-Latino actors from the new screen adaptation of In the Heights and how colorism still affects Latino representation on screen.
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A businessman trying to buy a municipal building at the base of the city's water tower got a lot more than he bargained for — several thousand gallons more.
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