LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Jobs, education, health, housing, the issues driving the NAACP these days look much like the concerns of most Americans, and that's …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Leaders of the largest and oldest black civil rights groups said they urged President Barack Obama in a White House meeting Thursday …

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) _ A retired architecture professor who was LSU's first black faculty member has died of cancer. Julian White was 73 years …

Black activists Cornel West and Tavis Smiley are planning a 15-city “Poverty Tour'' to bring attention to the needy and to what they say are …

EJones@sfltimes.com LEGAL STRIKE Calling it “repugnant to the common law,” Federal Judge Mary S. Scriven struck down a Florida controlled-substance law as unconstitutional. State legislators …

EJones@sfltimes.com POLICE CUTS Gov. Rick Scott and state legislators have quietly formed a task force to examine state law enforcement operations. The move is intended …

Thursday, July 28 Greater Miami Gardens Chamber of Commerce Inaugural Event: Join this group from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at El Dorado Furniture, 4200 NW …

check out what’s happening this weekend… Thursday, July 28 Ladies Night Christopher’s 2857 E. Oakland Park Blvd. Fort Lauderdale   954-561-2136

MIAMI BEACH — If you had just one wish, what would that wish be?  Understanding the hope, strength and joy of a simple wish, the …

In an era when big screen actors are returning to the small screen in droves, six black actors have been recognized for their work on …