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December 9, 2009
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport, race and Nelson Mandela will tell the world…
December 7, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - This is a critical time for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum as it winds down…
December 4, 2009
The proposed Museum of African American History and Culture is slated to be built at one of the National Mall's…
November 23, 2009
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Every day before heading to Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957,…
November 18, 2009
OPINION - Beatings are still prevalent as a child-rearing tool in the African-American community, a practice which hearkens back to…
November 17, 2009
OPINION - Does the current rise of minorities in American society signify the end of a fight for civil equality?
November 14, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) - Holly Price Alford is over the moon about Disney's first black princess. Her 8-year-old daughter is,…
November 11, 2009
VIDEO - Elijah McKelvin, like many in his time, joined the United States military forces to fight in what was…
November 10, 2009
VIDEO - Maggie Mae Thornton Renfro, a 114-year-old from Louisiana, lived by herself until she was 106 years old...
November 6, 2009
OPINION - There are valuable lessons for children watching Sesame Street for the first time, as much as it is…
November 4, 2009
OPINION - Atlanta didn't end its high drama last night. Instead, election night proved to be one, juicy cliffhanger...
November 2, 2009
(AP) - Topping the list of the nation's highest-paid university presidents is Shirley Ann Jackson at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in…
October 29, 2009
OPINION -- As a rabid fan of 1980s NBA basketball, I was saddened to read last week that the friendship…
October 27, 2009
VIDEO - With the opening of the Harvey Gantt Museum in Charlotte, a page of history is turned by a…
October 19, 2009
VIDEO - As we approach Halloween, October becomes a month filled with ghost stories. Some of those stories are coming…
October 14, 2009
OPINION - The crowning of Nikole Churchill as the first non-black Miss Hampton University has caused a ruckus at the…
October 13, 2009
OPINION - There are lessons from the King Family lawsuit we can learn as parents when leaving wealth to our…
October 13, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) - After more than 14 hours of discussion, the heirs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. reached…
October 10, 2009
VIDEO - "It's such a wonderful story to hear that she has roots here," said local seamstress Naomi Gilson. "But…
October 9, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) - Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers will be honored Friday with a Navy supply ship named for…