With a tape recorder whirring on the table between them, two high-school students interview a leader of Seattle's civil-rights movement about the ...

I never saw my father wear a flag pin, but he was a patriot. He was more faithful to the United States of America than I would have been if my life ...

Democratic conventions across the state on Saturday revealed a partisan divide that may signal a fissure in the party's ability to unite behind the ...

Officials from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health went on the offensive yesterday, defending a 2005 ...

Principal Jana Fields thought she was doing a good thing for her school when she pulled African American students into a meeting last week to ...

"There's a huge black vote in Philadelphia. The suburbs are a lot more pro-Obama.

'The rest of the state should go pretty heavily for Clinton"

Older, whiter and more female than the nation as a whole, Pennsylvania looks like Hillary Rodham Clinton country. Wealthier, better educated and more African-American than the rest of the state, Pennsylvania's thickly settled southeast corner could belong to Barack Obama.

For six weeks, the two Democratic presidential rivals have courted their political bases and sought to carve up each other's support with an increasingly tart tone. After both deluged the state with ads, crisscrossed it on buses, planes and trains, and had a parade of surrogates march through it, Clinton holds a slight lead. Read more

She sits in front a brick fireplace inside of a house so old it came mail-ordered from a Sears Roebuck catalog.. . She sits, fanning herself ...

The Little Rock Classroom Teachers Association will host a citywide commnity conversation with local business, civic, and community organizations ...

Accusations of backdoor-dealing and irresponsible pay plans marked Tuesday night's debate at a special meeting of the Little Rock School Board. At ...

I bet Hillary Clinton wishes Bob Johnson would stop trying to help her.. Johnson is the billionaire BET founder and Clinton supporter who ...

For many years, politicians on both sides of the aisle went to extreme lengths to avoid the perceived political suicide of being "soft on crime." ...

Over the past century it's been a home for social events, political meetings and major openings. Fanny Brice played there when it was a vaudeville ...

There's an elderly black woman in Philadelphia named Bella who apparently listens to talk radio a lot. She not only listens, she calls in, and she ...

100 Black Men of announces the 2008 recipients of its Annual Scholarships.. Kenneth LaRome Sirmans III is a senior at Valdosta High School. His ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a new African-American magazine, "Blended," now available throughout the Treasure Coast. . . At the time, I ...