Slideshow: It happened this week in black history 2/13-2/19
SLIDESHOW - Joe Frazier became heavyweight champion, Morehouse was founded and Huey P. Newton was born; this is an incredibly historic week by any standard...
Sen. Harry Reid: Let's not go backwards this Black History Month
OPINION - The economic recovery is still taking root, and African-Americans still face unemployment at a rate far above the national average...
Biden on black history: 'A lot more to do, but damn, we've come a long way'
theGRIO REPORT - Vice President Biden welcomed over 120 elected African-American officials and their guests to their official residence in honor of Black History Month...
Obama bringing Motown to the White House
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama will mark Black History Month at the White House with a celebration of Motown music...
Former Negro Leagues pitcher Cecil Kaiser dies
DETROIT (AP) - Cecil Kaiser, a diminutive left-hander who made $700 a month at the height of his Negro Leagues pitching career in the 1940s, died Monday at the age of 94...
Nat 'King' Cole's TV show gets digital release
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Cole's widow, Maria, saved kinescopes -- copies made by filming a TV monitor -- of the 1956-57 show that have been remastered for release on Apple Inc.'s iTunes...
Slaves hid African charms on Colonial greenhouse
BALTIMORE (AP) - The greenhouse on the slave plantation where Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood is filled with more African history than originally thought...
Slideshow: It happened this week in black history 2/6-2/12
SLIDESHOW - Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson, the NAACP was founded and Nelson Mandela was set free; this is an incredibly historic week by any standard...
Family squabbles sully legacy of civil rights icons
OPINION - The Kings and Shabazzes are not above petty fights, but the respective memories and enduring legacies of their fathers make the circumstances different...
Malcolm X trove hidden during family feud
A feud over the estate of Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcolm X, has created divisions among the couple's six daughters and has resulted in something none of them had intended...
