MIAMI — It was a nightmare scenario for anyone seeking a successful life. A functionally illiterate, stuttering, 12-year-old black boy, raised in a working-class neighborhood …

America appears to be launching another baby boom. The 4,317,119 births recorded in 2007 were the most in the nation’s history. But hold the celebratory …

HAVANA (AP) — A “very healthy, very energetic” Fidel Castro asked visiting Congressional Black Caucus members what Cuba could do to help President Barack Obama …

WASHINGTON (AP) —President Barack Obama went for the defining television shot in Iraq and got it – pictures of hundreds of U.S. troops cheering wildly …

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — FBI hostage negotiators joined U.S. Navy efforts Thursday to free an American cargo ship captain held captive on a lifeboat by …

CHICAGO (AP) _ An independent panel that reviews possible ethical lapses by members of the House of Representatives has launched a preliminary review of U.S. …

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — They’re no longer the only option for African-American students, but the country’s historically black colleges and universities brag that they provide …

BOSTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported.  Instead, Zeituni …

DETROIT (AP) _ General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will step down immediately at the request of the White House, and new directors …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — John Hope Franklin, a towering scholar and pioneer of African-American studies who wrote the seminal text on the black experience in …