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Read this heart-breaker from colorlines.com: Four years after Katrina, the city of New Orleans can still break your heart. Not
Check out the The Daily Beast’s piece from daughter Elizabeth Gates on her father’s arrest: The arrest of my father,
Do you remember the first one? According to Chris Chambers from The Retort via our friends at Jack and Jill
With recent polls showing that 50% of Americans disagree with the president’s handling of healthcare policy, President Obama has some
NBC Nightly News details the arrest of renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Cambridge Police refer to the incident…
A generation ago, when crack cocaine was the scourge of black communities and hip-hop still wavered between decrying its impact
Just as alumni encourage their universities to pump dollars into various programs and university departments, black alumni need to encourage
For young people from low-income backgrounds, often faced with paying their own way and helping support their families, interest in…
Though this high school junior was born without arms, he hasn't missed a beat. The Texas teen plays drums for…
Since April, a bloodied KKK robe from the 1950s has become part of a historical investigation. An anonymous donor who…
When I hear about a Black man being mistreated by police, I take a moment of pause. I think about…
BOSTON (AP) -- A person with knowledge of the case against Henry Louis Gates Jr. says the police who arrested…
Members of a black extremist group began assembling Tuesday morning near the courthouse before planned demonstrations in a town where…
Actor Tyler Perry is paying for 65 non-white children from a Philadelphia day camp to go to Walt Disney World…
The arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, the country's most important black academic, in his own home means…
The arrest of one of America's most prominent black scholars is raising questions of racial profiling. It started with a…
Hundreds of young people from around the country recently gathered in Chicago to step up to the mic and express
This week marks 6 months since President Obama’s inauguration. The president has had a lot to deal with, having inherited
Watch an excerpt of Chris Brown’s apology Singer Chris Brown is publicly apologizing for beating his former girlfriend, Rihanna. Brown
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A group of black police officers in Philadelphia want a federal judge to shut down an Internet…