Beginning on Friday, June 18, federal employees enjoyed the country’s 12th – and perhaps most significant – paid holiday. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a signing ceremony, officially marking Juneteenth as a federal holiday. Because Juneteenth…
The ‘Juneteenth’ celebration marks the date (June 19) in 1865, when enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas were told they were free. They were the last community of enslaved people to be informed of their liberation, more than two and…
Former President Donald Trump repeatedly and flagrantly demanded that the Department of Justice carry out his political will and tried to use the DOJ as a cudgel against his political opponents and media members, according to U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff…
The Supreme Court ruled that those convicted of possessing small amounts of crack cocaine are prohibited from seeking sentence reductions on June 14. Activists complained that the ruling is just another slap in the face to minority defendants who were…
When the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) posted a photo of 14-year-old Isaac Gastelum on Twitter, the response was telling. “This has been almost a month since he went missing,” an individual with the Twitter handle @SdMerlins…
The U.S. Senate, on June 14, confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. President Joe Biden nominated Judge Jackson to fill one of the vacancies on the District appellate court,…
