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...
Professor finds oldest black school — in Virginia
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - In the historical epicenter of slavery, a professor thinks he may have found the nation's oldest surviving schoolhouse for African-American children...
Happy Birthday, Madiba! Icons reflect on Mandela's 92nd
theGRIO REPORT - Mandela turns 92 on July 18th. Morgan Freeman, Maya Angelou and more share their memories of the beloved leader...
Late Negro Leaguers' legacies finally set in stone
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project seeks out former Negro League players buried without headstones and uses donations to buy them one...
