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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…
September 3, 2009
From our friends at essence.com: After 54 years, the story of Emmett Till is still making news. Till was just
September 1, 2009
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) -- Former Tuskegee Airman Robert Decatur, who became a judge and civil rights lawyer, will be buried…
September 1, 2009
OPINION - HBCUs are not just relevant, they are a necessary tool of educational obtainment for some black, and even…
September 1, 2009
VIDEO - For more than a century, historically black colleges and universities -- HBCUs -- have focused on educating the…
August 29, 2009
OPINION -- The last time I met with Michael, we saw each other from across the room and he made…
August 28, 2009
OPINION -- In today's age, what would Martin Luther King Jr. think about health care reform as a matter of…