Eric Holder wants Voting Rights Act provision upheld
WASHINGTON (AP) - On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Attorney General Eric Holder challenged the Supreme Court to uphold a key section of the Voting Rights Act...
A post-racial US? Court poised to change race laws
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the nation lived down its history of racism and should the law become colorblind?
Equality includes everyone
OPINION - As Americans, it is up to each and every one of us to fight injustice and inequality when we are faced with it...
Some patients reject nurses of different race
DETROIT (AP) - It's been called one of medicine's 'open secrets'— allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race...
Hospital allegedly granted request for no black nurses
FLINT, Mich. (AP) - An African-American nurse claims a Michigan hospital agreed to a man's request that no black nurses care for his newborn...
After 17 years, black candidates become firefighters in Chicago
CHICAGO - At age 53, Marvin Jones finally became the fireman he'd always dreamed of becoming...
Are black women being heard in the 2012 presidential race?
OPINION - Our issues, like all those of all Americans, should be raised and addressed in the national discourse by both presidential hopefuls directly...
Is calling Zoe Saldana 'too light' to play Nina Simone colorism?
OPINION - Just because Saldana is not in the latest Tyler Perry movie, or tends to have white men as love interests in the movies she’s appeared in, doesn’t make her any less black than the next black actress...
SC voter ID gets judges' scrutiny
WASHINGTON (AP) - South Carolina is in federal court arguing that its new law requiring people prove their identity at the polls won't make voting so tough that it reduces turnout of African-Americans, Hispanics and other minorities...
Cincinnati company to pay $325,000 to black workers in settlement
The company reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, putting an end to the race-discrimination case.
