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NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry explains the long journey of bringing back a statue to the Mountain View Community Park.

The original Black Family statue, which was designed by Rossie Wade, then an artist in residence at San Diego Community College, was first installed in 1974.

The move is intended to make it unattractive as a place of pilgrimage for Nazi sympathizers and hate groups.

The sandals are the “earliest and widest-ranging” collection of prehistoric footwear ever found in Europe, a new study said.

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865 — the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth — has sold at auction for $262,500.

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021. Here’s what you need to know about this important holiday.

Explorers have announced they found a sunken Japanese ship that was transporting Allied prisoners of war when it was torpedoed off the coast of the Philippines in 1942, resulting in Australia’s largest maritime wartime loss with a total of 1,080 lives.

One of the architects of the Holocaust was Arthur Seyss-Inquart, one of the most loyal and high-ranking officers of Hitler’s Nazi party. He might have escaped justice the day the Nazis surrendered, if not for a NYC man who shared his heroic story for the first time

Decades before the month-long celebration came to be, some Americans celebrated “Women’s Day.”

The Old North Church is seen as an iconic landmark of the Revolution, but what we are taught is dictated by who is writing the story.

Decades before the infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, Alse Young was killed at the gallows in Connecticut, becoming the first person on record to be executed in the American colonies for witchcraft. The Windsor town clerk registered the death on May 26, 1647, in a diary entry that read: “Alse Young was hanged.” Young was the first of nine…

A handful of centenarian survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor are expected to gather at the scene in Hawaii to commemorate those who perished 81 years ago in the Japanese bombing.

The family of a fallen World War II hero from New York City can finally get a bit of closure, after the soldier’s remains were identified nearly 80 years after he died during the war.

The historical society is expecting around 30 mourning vehicles, both “vintage and modern,” at the event.

Here’s when — and why — these hues became linked to the spookiest day of the year.

Experts explain if the famous bloodsuckers actually exist — and how you can find them.

Plus, find out why we celebrate with costumes, candy and carved pumpkins.

They call themselves Hers-torians and they are on a mission. NBC 7’s Amber Frias has the story.

Our Genetic Legacy is not your typical STEM program. The purpose here is to use tools of the future to uncover the past. Over the next year, the girls aged 14 to 17 will develop a plan to open a new museum.

Before there was “The Incredibles,” “Minions,” and “Turning Red,” animation existed through magical shorts of talking dinosaurs and singing mice that shocked the world. Together, let’s take a brief walk through the history of animated film: some of the pivotal moments in history that made animated film what it is today and what it can be in the future.