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Nearly 36 percent of black Americans are obese -- much more than other major racial or ethnic groups -- and…
In Washington this morning, questioning of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has spilled over into a third day - with…
Chief Executive Officer Eric V. Brown and wife Renee Cottrell-Brown, the executive vice president Johnson Products, the company behind such
In a very unusual situation, a South Carolina woman died Wednesday after driving into an ammonia cloud. When her car…
In the early 1900s, vicious attacks against African Americans were almost as common in the North as in the South.
Thousands of people die each year from preventable medical errors, but a Louisiana hospital has found a way to cut…
A Baton Rouge, Louisiana teen that lost his battle with cancer was laid to rest in a grave dug by…
In an age when the Supreme Court may soon see its first Latina justice -- nominated by the nation's first…
Today, two firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut step from the audience to the witness table. They will testify against Sonia…
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is telling the nation's oldest civil rights organization that government, families and neighborhoods must…
Democratic presidential candidate Obama greeting supporters at the 2008 NAACP convention in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File) Over the last
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) African Americans who are just as suspicious of white liberals as they are of conservatives
For many, thoughts of Mississippi evoke images that are dark and prejudicial. Aside from that, critics have argued for years
Officials in Florida say they have arrested all of the people they believe were at the scene of the murder…
Thousands of people who learned through text message, Twitter and word-of-mouth that comedian Dave Chappelle would hold a free show…
Praising and prodding Congress at once, President Barack Obama on Wednesday said a vast reform of the U.S. health insurance…
Eastman Kodak Co. has agreed to pay $21.4 million to settle legal action brought by black workers who claim the…
Four Hollywood, FL high school football players, along with their coach, are being credited with saving three lives.
The owner of a suburban Chicago cemetery that's been closed by authorities amid allegations that workers dug up bodies and…
Stephanie Ward drives her two biracial children to a black school an hour away to give them a break from…