Early Nation of Islam documents found in Detroit
DETROIT (AP) - More than 1,000 documents were found in the attic of a home in Detroit, the city where the secretive movement started 80 years ago, a lawyer said...
Re-enactors keep memory of black Civil War troops
SULLIVANS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) - The role of black Civil War troops in gaining the freedom of black Americans was pushed to a distant corner of the national memory for decades...
November trial set in 1965 Ala civil rights death case
MARION, Ala. (AP) - A grand jury indicted James Bonard Fowler for murder in the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson during a civil rights protest that turned chaotic...
Slideshow: Rage leaves Watts in ruins
SLIDESHOW - These classic photos capture the mayhem and aftermath of a challenging time in our nation's history...
Watts riots: The fuse is still lit 45 years later
OPINION - In the decades after the riots, the many Watts's of America were written off as vast wastelands of violence...
Ex-Negro league baseball star still working at 104
PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) - "And I don't have many wrinkles," he says in Spanish. He smiles, then allows in English: "Just a little bit."...
New products proving Ali is still the greatest
NEW YORK (AP) - It's been nearly three decades since Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring, and the public still can't get enough of the self-described greatest...
Tuskegee Airman buried at Arlington Cemetery
WASHINGTON - Col. Spann Watson, one of the famed black flyers who fought in WWII, joins the ranks of the country's fallen at Arlington National Cemetery...
New film exposes naked truth of Hefner's civil rights activism
REVIEW - Did you know that the NAACP gave Hugh Hefner a special award? What about the fact that Alex Haley conducted the first interview for the magazine?...
Historian stages sleep-ins to save SC slave cabins
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - When Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows that spending the night there will conjure the specter of slavery...
