DORIE TURNER
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Three of the country’s largest black fraternities are joining forces with Big Brothers …
'Daiquiris to Go' establishment under fire from MADD (video)
A Dallas business offering drive-through cocktails is feeling heat from Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
The daiquiris served at Daiquiris To Go are made w…
Man charged in Craigslist rape-for-hire case (video)
DIANA RUGG
Authorities say they are confident that a North Carolina man charged with rape for an encounter arranged on Craigslist knew that it was not conse…
SC Republican refers to gorilla as one of Michelle Obama's "ancestors" (video)
A Republican activist in South Carolina is under fire for comments he made on Facebook about first lady Michelle Obama.
The story first hit the blog fitsnew…
Hospital encouraging ICU patients to be mobile in new treatment (video)
SUSAN SHAPIRO
It’s not easy for patients recovering in intensive care units. So Johns Hopkins hospital is trying a new approach that is getting them …
Girl whose teacher wrote on her face 13 years ago reflects on the controversy (video)
OCTAVIA MITCHELL
It was thirteen years ago a when a white teacher wrote, “where are my glasses” on the face of a little black girl. The incident …
White Negro Leaguer shares his story
BRUCE MILES
(Arlington Heights) Daily Herald
SCHAUMBURG, Illl. (AP) — Louis Clarizio remembers riding the buses. He remembers seeing the signs th…
Urban farming, a cheaper alternative (video)
Here’s something you wouldn’t expect to see in the middle of a big city like Washington, D.C.: a working farm that’s helping a communit…
One of the oldest black cities in U.S. fights to stay alive (video)
HOBSON CITY, Ala. (AP) – The cafes, the school and the roller rink are long gone from Alabama’s oldest black city. Empty homes and businesses l…
Inmates taking up journalism with prison newspaper
MICHELLE LOCKE
Associated Press Writer
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
SAN QUENTIN, California (AP) — Like journalists everywhere, the staff of the San Q…
