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Black Independence Day, otherwise known as Juneteenth, has arrived. We’ve compiled a few facts that you may not have known about the celebration of the emancipation of the last slaves in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on Sept. 22, 1862, but it took nearly three more years before full emancipation […]

Thou shalt not place a Ten Commandments monument on Oklahoma Capitol grounds. This was the ruling of Oklahoma’s Supreme Court Tuesday concerning a 6-foot-tall granite…

      More than 80,000 people were left without power as flood waters closed roads and Interstates in Houston. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared…

Dr. Olivia Hooker, the first African-American woman to actively enroll in the U.S. Coast Guard, was honored last week with not one, but two commemorative…

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What a week! Everybody digs “Empire,” but if there was ever a time we needed “Soul Train” back in our lives, it’s now. It seems…

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On Thursday evening, Oklahoma executed Charles Frederick Warner (pictured), the first execution the state has held since the botched one that took place last year, the…

Beryl Rhines (pictured) of Lawton, Okla., is currently behind bars and has been charged with assault and disturbing the peace for showing up at Comanche…

Annie Mougell-Walker (pictured) was shot in the back of the head Monday afternoon by her 11-year-old grandson after arguing with him over his bad behavior in…

  None of the protesters on both sides were arrested, though the anger of the Moore, Oklahoma residents showed in chasing away the Westboro protesters.…

  When Houston police spotted Landry Thompson (pictured left), a 13-year-old Tulsa, Okla., dancer in the company of two Black men, Josiah Kelly (pictured right), 22,…

  *Australian college baseball player, Christopher Lane, was gunned down last week and some conservatives are calling the media’s coverage of the shooting a racial…

(RNN) – Nine people are confirmed dead after a series of violent storms tore through the Midwest on Friday, taking aim at two major metropolitan…