State senator to blacks: Vote or risk going back to cotton fields
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama state senator has recorded phone calls saying that blacks risk "going back to the cotton fields"...
Still no justice for civil rights-era rape victims
ATLANTA (AP) - Recy Taylor survived only to watch two all-white, all-male grand juries decline to indict the six white men who admitted to authorities that they assaulted her...
Ariz. immigration law brings back apartheid memories
OPINION - Once people begin to accept that taking away this piece of our humanity and values is ok, it becomes easier to push additional steps...
Jim Crow makes a comeback in Virginia
OPINION - Gov. McDonnell will require ex-felons seeking to vote to write an essay on the "reasons why you believe the restoration of your civil rights is justified"...
Slideshow: Worst obstructionists in black history
African-Americans have been met with numerous road blocks to freedom but have nonetheless held firm that the US Constitution guarantees freedom and equality for all...
Time well served for black seaman in Jim Crow era
VIDEO - Elijah McKelvin, like many in his time, joined the United States military forces to fight in what was the deadliest conflict in human history...
Proposed law would restore voting rights to felons
VIDEO - There are currently more than 5 million American citizens who cannot vote because of a criminal conviction, and 2 million of those 5 million are African-Americans...
City workers suspended for hanging nooses
Three city employees in Springfield have been suspended for 60 days without pay for separate incidents in which nooses were hung at their workplaces.
