Corporate executives and sports officials are joining a growing number of elected officials who want to recognize Juneteenth, a day that commemorates the…

Celebrations held from coast to coast will include marches and demonstrations of civil disobedience.

Atlanta’s police department says it can still police the city even if officers are calling out sick in larger numbers than normal.

British officials said Thursday the grave of an enslaved African man has been vandalized in an apparent “retaliation attack” after protesters in the city of Bristol toppled the statue of a prominent slave trader.

A judge has indefinitely extended an injunction preventing the Virginia governor from removing a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue.

One crowd was holding “Black Lives Matter” signs. The other was waving American flags with a thin blue line symbolizing support for the police.

A Georgia county prosecutor has charged a white Atlanta police officer who shot a 27-year-old black man in the back last week in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant.

Officials in historic Charleston, South Carolina, say they plan to remove a statue of slavery advocate John C. Calhoun from a downtown square.

Rep. González sees the progress on Beacon Hill as a legislative win, but says there's still work left to be done.

Philonise Floyd called for a United Nations probe into police brutality in the U.S., which is not part of the council. "I'm asking you to help him," he told the diplomats. "I'm asking you to help me."