Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service's oldest ranger, died Sunday. As a ranger, she shed light on the painful reality ...

HOUSTON — The Houston City Council voted Wednesday to approve the purchase of an east Houston property that will serve as a large shelter for the homeless, which some have referred to as a “super hub.

Houston's historic Emancipation Park will undergo a major expansion project over the next eight months, renovating the park's cultural center and creating a new outdoor performance stage. The ...

On Maryland Emancipation Day, Anne Arundel County will become the first local jurisdiction to formally apologize for its role in perpetuating slavery. On November 1, 1864, Maryland abolished slavery, ...

President Trump kicked off his Cabinet meeting Thursday by signing a proclamation honoring Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus – declaring, “We’re back, Italians.” “Our Nation will now abide by a ...

President Donald Trump's Cabinet and others at the White House broke out into applause Thursday afternoon when Trump signed a proclamation honoring Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. "Today we ...

On Sept. 23, 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley stood before the women of the Relief Society and unveiled what has since become one of the most cited, celebrated and contested texts in modern ...

After a prayer given by his own freshman grandson, Latter-day Saint apostle Ronald A. Rasband reaffirmed the importance of “The Family: A Proclamation to the World” on its 30th anniversary Tuesday.

(WDBJ) - On September 22nd, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It was a threat to free all enslaved people in the Confederacy if those states did not return to the ...

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Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana from its independence in 1957 to his overthrow in a military coup in 1966, was in his day as important as Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Mohandas Gandhi of India ...

President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Monday honoring 13 American service members killed in a suicide bombing during the chaotic U.S. withdrawal of forces at the end of the Afghanistan War in ...