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A senior Houston firefighter apologized Monday for keeping a rope that looked like hangman's noose in his locker, saying it…
The statue of America’s foremost civil rights leader — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — has been defaced, painted white.
Unemployment among African Americans, which some may partly attribute to racism, is now at Depression-era levels. Racial profiling and police
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to approve US Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor to be the first Hispanic justice...
From tnj.com: A black president tabs a Latina for the Supreme Court. She had made a ruling against white firefighters.
Wyclef Jean, best known as a Grammy Winning artist who has sold over 50 million records and toured the world…
CHICAGO (AP) -- In Michelle Obama's hometown, working women hustle back and forth from home to the office in stylish…
On the 141st anniversary of the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, theGrio reflects with iCue on the revolutionary bill giving…
An overloaded sailboat carrying Haitian migrants sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands and as many as 85 people are…
The nation's bulldozer attack on crime and poverty will soon make Atlanta -- home of the first public housing development…
President Barack Obama congratulates the WNBA's Detroit Shock on their championship. This is The Shock's second championship in three years...
We all know how it works: There's the healthcare debate going on in Washington, which is almost impossible to follow.Then…
(AP Photo/Seth Perlman, file) Despite (or perhaps because of) President Obama’s rare White House press room visit Friday, the racial
Judge Sonia Sotomayor admits she’s an affirmative action baby. She stated in an interview that she did not have high
For the past six weeks, rapper Drake has been sitting at the top of the charts. What is the secret…
From urbanmecca.com. Tyler Perry is known today as the first African-American to own a major film and TV studio. He’s
NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Vick is back in the NFL. Now all he needs is a team to play…
From Essence: Clear Channel Radio will be donating several AM stations and equipment to the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council
From tnj.com As the newest employee of the Reel Thing Catfish Cafe, the 84-year-old World War II aviator spent a
A black police officer who witnessed the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates is now speaking up. Sgt. Leon…