Black History Month

MARION, Ala. (AP) - A grand jury indicted James Bonard Fowler for murder in the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson…
/ August 17, 2010
theGRIO REPORT - Calling it a "national crisis," a recent report found that less than half of black males graduated…
/ August 17, 2010
OPINION - Education is the pathway out of poverty. For too long poverty has perpetuated ignorance, which feeds discrimination and…
/ August 11, 2010
SLIDESHOW - These classic photos capture the mayhem and aftermath of a challenging time in our nation's history...
/ August 11, 2010
OPINION - In the decades after the riots, the many Watts's of America were written off as vast wastelands of…
/ August 11, 2010
OPINION - We need to get rid of the system that protects bad teachers and makes it impossible to reward…
/ August 10, 2010
PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) - "And I don't have many wrinkles," he says in Spanish. He smiles, then allows in…
/ August 2, 2010
NEW YORK (AP) - It's been nearly three decades since Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring, and the public still…
/ July 31, 2010
WASHINGTON - Col. Spann Watson, one of the famed black flyers who fought in WWII, joins the ranks of the…
/ July 30, 2010
REVIEW - Did you know that the NAACP gave Hugh Hefner a special award? What about the fact that Alex…
/ July 30, 2010
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - When Joe McGill spreads his sleeping bag on the floor of a slave cabin, he knows…
/ July 24, 2010
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) - In the historical epicenter of slavery, a professor thinks he may have found the nation's oldest…
/ July 23, 2010