Ala. bus boycott organizer, professor dies at 96
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Thelma McWilliams Glass, a longtime professor and civil rights pioneer who helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott, died on Wednesday. She was 96...
NY black radio pioneer Hal Jackson dies
NEW YORK (AP) - Radio pioneer Harold "Hal" Jackson, a staple of New York radio, has died. He was in his late 90s..
American Airlines honors black aviation pioneers with new virtual museum
The virtual museum is a Web site that provides written profiles along with video interviews, photos and historical documents to cover this chapter in American history...
NYPD honors first black lieutenant
The New York Police Department's first black officer is being honored. An intersection in Harlem -- West 135th Street and Lenox Avenue -- is being renamed Samuel J. Battle Plaza on Tuesday. It's where Battle saved a white officer during a racial clash in 1919...
