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TODAY – Most girls going off to the prom have a must-have checklist, and it usually includes a dress, shoes and makeup. Now there’s another thing to add to the list: chicken…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The man accused of killing three people in attacks at a Jewish community center and Jewish retirement complex near Kansas City is a well-known white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith was arrested Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after authorities said he became belligerent during a security screening and threatened that he had a bomb…
NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama says the right to vote in the U.S. is under bigger threat than at any time since the Voting Rights Act passed nearly five decades ago…
NEW YORK (AP) — Lawyers say Harry Belafonte will retain possession of historical documents he acquired during his friendship with Martin Luther King Jr…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Black female lawmakers are urging Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to reconsider revised Army regulations that ban hairstyles frequently worn by minority women in the military…
OPINION – Johnson was a man of his time, and bore those flaws as surely as he sought to lead the country past them…
ATLANTA (AP) — Lou Hudson, a smooth-shooting star for the Hawks who averaged more than 20 points during 13 NBA seasons, died Friday. He was 69…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama nominated his budget chief, calling her ‘a proven manager,’ to replace outgoing Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as the top official to oversee his much maligned health care overhaul.,,
LINCOLNTON, North Carolina (AP) — A man who sucked an unwilling woman’s toes inside a Wal-Mart has been sentenced to 60 days in jail…
MIAMI (AP) — Three NFL players are named in a police report involving a woman who passed out in a hotel and later woke up in a hospital not knowing how she got there, though no one has been charged with a crime, authorities said Thursday…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell said Wednesday that gay athletes’ current fight for equality and acceptance reminds him of some of the same struggles black athletes faced in the 1960s…
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Reflecting on the unique power of the office he holds, President Barack Obama on Thursday honored Lyndon B. Johnson as leader who seized the presidency’s influence over the “currents of history” to fulfill America’s founding promises of equality…
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert is replacing David Letterman as CBS’ late-night host…
NBC Sports – TMZ reports that police are investigating an alleged incident at the Viceroy Hotel in Miami this month…
DETROIT (AP) — A 16-year-old boy has been charged with assault and a hate crime in the beating of a man who was attacked after accidentally striking another boy with his pickup truck…
NEW YORK (AP) — At a time when interest in civil rights memorabilia is rekindled, a lifetime’s worth of Rosa Parks’ belongings — among them her Presidential Medal of Freedom — sits in a New York warehouse, unseen and unsold…
NEW YORK (AP) — The Rev. Al Sharpton opened his annual civil rights conference Wednesday, which President Barack Obama plans to attend, amid revelations about the activist’s cooperation with the FBI in a 1980s mob investigation…
LOS ANGELES (AP) – A spokeswoman for the rapper announced Wednesday that he has canceled plans to marry the ‘Glee’ star…
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — President Barack Obama reprised his role as chief comforter in a grief-stricken corner of America on Wednesday, mourning with families and uniformed comrades of those killed in a shooting spree last week at the Fort Hood military post in Texas…