Thirteen jars filled with ash and dirt and bone rest in the basement of Tulsa's Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church, an unsettled repose for the victims of a nearly century-old massacre that still haunts the Black residents of Oklahoma's second-largest city.
The chief of police in Louisville, Kentucky said on Friday he intended to fire one of three officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman killed in a burst of gunfire when drug investigators mistakenly entered her home.
Thousands marched in U.S. cities, major companies gave employees the day off and people in coronavirus lockdown held online forums on Friday as America marked Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of Black slavery that carries special resonance this year.
The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday condemned discriminatory and violent policing after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month and ordered a report on "systemic racism" against people of African descent.
The U.S. Navy will not reinstate Captain Brett Crozier after finding fault with his response to the outbreak of the coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt and is also putting an admiral's promotion on hold, sources told Reuters on Friday.
The Trump administration will find a "compassionate" way to deal with immigrants who are in the country illegally and were brought to the country as children, also known as Dreamers, Kayleigh McEnany told reporters at a briefing on Friday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Friday reported 2,178,710 cases of new coronavirus, an increase of 23,138 cases from its previous count, and said that the number of deaths had risen by 733 to 118,365.
A federal judge on Friday expressed doubt the White House could keep former national security adviser John Bolton's memoir out of the public's hands, after media outlets released excerpts and more than 200,000 copies were distributed.
The U.S. owner of Eskimo Pie ice cream will change the product's brand name and marketing, it told Reuters on Friday, becoming the latest company to rethink racially charged brand imagery amid a broad debate on racial injustice.
Snapchat took down a "Juneteenth"-themed filter and apologized to users for the lens, which drew criticism for being insensitive, the photo messaging app's parent Snap Inc said on Friday.