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Oak Ridge, N.J.: Making Juneteenth a holiday was a great idea. The meaning of the day is like Memorial Day, which used to be called Decorati...

“What can you say about someone who drives their motorized scooter into a human being and keeps on going, leaving her on the street, head ba...

She asked a Brooklyn judge for leniency in sentencing a family member for 'conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute na...

Disruptors in the crowd reportedly wore 'Make America Great Again' caps

Brooklyn Borough President Adams remains the race’s frontrunner in recent polls, but Garcia, the city’s former sanitation commisioner; Yang,...

De Blasio vowed last June that the city would make the holiday, which commemorates the emancipation of African slaves, official, but on Frid...

The major milestone came with a caveat as vaccination rates slow and the so-called Delta variant continues to spread, prompting Biden to war...

The clinics include the Claremont Neighborhood Center in the Bronx, the Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion at Columbia University Irving M...

President Abraham Lincoln’s District of Columbia Emancipation Act of 1862 freed slaves in the nation’s capital a full eight months before hi...

New York’s Education Department responded to standardized testing during COVID with restraint, but the Biden administration chose to embrace...

I recently found inspiration from the most unlikely of sources: Amazon. As the head of Union Settlement, a nonprofit serving low-income resi...

Twenty-one states have introduced or passed legislation in recent weeks to ban the teaching of “critical race theory,” a school of legal aca...

The number of COVID-19 infections are dwindling, vaccination rates continue to rise, New Yorkers are beginning to return to the office and o...

Sitting opposite Shimon and Tzivia in their modest Kiryat Gat living room in Southern Israel, I was overcome. As a grandfather of a beautifu...

Wednesday’s final mayoral debate on Channel 4 was billed as a “leading contenders” faceoff, intended to focus on those with a real shot at w...

The Supreme Court Thursday let Obamacare cheat death for the third time, beating back a challenge from states seeking to knock down the enti...

Eldersburg, Md.: It’s a good thing you’re reporting President Biden’s flash of anger at a CNN reporter (“ ‘You’re in the wrong business,’ ”...

Academic heavy hitters are blasting Republican-led efforts across the country to restrict education on racism. The Association of American C...

By now, you have likely heard of Juneteenth. The holiday, traditionally a regional celebration of a very specific moment in the emancipation...

Paterson hailed the BP’s record as an elected and ex-NYPD captain who often criticized police brass.

President Biden signed a bill Thursday formally designating June 19th as Juneteenth.

Video shows him ranting — with his face mask on his forehead — in spite of protests from a man who noted there were children present.

As we urged a year ago, Juneteenth will become a national holiday, the bill having passed both houses of Congress and winning President Bide...

Mayor de Blasio announced Thursday that the city is launching the Juneteenth Economic Justice Plan, which will include universal scholarship...

The 2002 Iraq Authorization for the Use of Military Force allowed then-President Bush to invade the country, to remove then-dictator Saddam...