This dedication ceremony took place in the heart of Houston’s historic Third Ward, at the site of the Houston Housing Authority’s first development, which opened in 1947.

As the church continues to be a pillar within the Black community, those in Galveston are gearing up to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday with Grammy-Award winning gospel artist Fred Hammond.

Should slavery be legal in Texas? That question was featured as part of the curriculum for seventh graders at Houston ISD schools, and it’s causing an uproar.

Rochester school officials are investigating allegations that a white teacher told his class of mostly Black students to pick seeds out of cotton and put on handcuffs during lessons on slavery in a seventh-grade social studies class.

After more than 150 years, the city of Galveston has finally made Juneteeth an official city holiday.

A Sugar Land non-profit invites the community to take part in a Juneteenth tribute for the Sugar Land 95.

A new exhibition at the Dutch national museum in Amsterdam is taking an unflinching look at the brutal history of the country's involvement in the global slave trade.

Multiple school systems in Alabama, Texas and Virginia have voted to change school names in recent months, but local resistance and state laws make that no simple task. The Montgomery County School Board voted in July to change the names of the three schools, but a 2017 state law protects Confederate monuments and other long-standing memorials and names. In Virginia, the removal of Confederate names began in the states northern region in 2018, when J.E.B. Washington-Lee High School in Arlington changed its name to Washington-Liberty at the start of the 2019-2020 academic year. In Hanover County, a conservative jurisdiction outside Richmond, the school board narrowly voted to change the name of Lee-Davis High.