President Joe Biden will sign legislation into law on Thursday that officially makes Juneteenth a federal holiday -- the first new national holiday since 1983.

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.

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world. The country represents only 5% of the global population but 25% of the prison populat...