NASA chief: Shuttle broke segregation in space
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Gen. Charles Bolden, Jr., in remarks for a Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday breakfast, said the shuttle made more than scientific and technological breakthroughs possible...
House Republicans renew plan to repeal health care
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans are set to resume their bid to repeal the health care reform law, a week later than planned because of the shootings in Arizona...
Can Obama reboot the conversation of education?
OPINION - The Obama administration is hoping to create a bipartisan solution that reduces the need for constant testing, while also keeping educational standards high...
Nonviolence, service, themes of King day events
WASHINGTON (AP) - As he took part in a painting project at a Washington, DC middle school, President Barack Obama urged Americans to get out into their communities...
McCain calls Obama a 'patriot', rejects critics who say he's 'unworthy' to lead
From Politics Daily:
Sen. John McCain lost a bitter campaign against Barack Obama in 2008 and has been at loggerheads with him for much of Obama’s fir…
TheGrio's 2011 African-American Leadership Survey
SURVEY - TheGrio assembled a group of 25 contemporary academics, artists and activists to assess the most influential black leaders in U.S. history...
Slideshow: The 25 Most Influential Black American Leaders of All Time
SLIDESHOW - Regardless of who tops the list or gets overlooked, the overall point is that it's time for us to turn our full on attention onto leadership...
From MLK to Obama: How we define black leadership
OPINION - Leaders do not always win, but leaders always call us to believe that we are capable of making something better than what we currently believe is possible...
Is Sharpton the closest thing we have to a King?
OPINION - Sharpton has proven that black leadership is useful and even necessary on the outside, even when the most powerful leader in the free world is a black man...
Steele's rocky tenure at RNC leaves behind mixed bag
OPINION - The Steele era did have some pluses, but his perceived failures clearly outweighed his successes...
