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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…
October 9, 2009
OPINION - The term "good hair" harks back to antebellum America, when slaves knew that the less African they appeared,…
October 5, 2009
Columbia's first Catholic high school will be named after the nation's first known black priest. The Rev. Augustine Tolton was…
October 2, 2009
OPINION - Chicago, once a haven for black culture and economic progress, has become more dangerous for black youth than…
September 23, 2009
OPINION - Everyone in power had been raised in a religious environment that taught that blacks were the descendants of…
September 22, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) - In a city where black history usually calls to mind the lives of civil rights leaders, a…
September 20, 2009
OPINION -- Fifty-four years ago, the late Thurgood Marshall via the Brown v. Board of Education decision, affirmed one of…
September 18, 2009
FORT JACKSON, South Carolina (AP) - Command Sgt. Maj. Teresa King can dress down a burly, battle-hardened sergeant in seconds…