Posts in category Black News

AP National Writer PHILADELPHIA — Ask Americans how race relations have changed under their first black president and they are ready with answers.

WASHINGTON — House Republicans won a historic political fight to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress but the GOP likely is still …

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Mourners silently walked between rows of the dead from a plane crash in Nigeria that killed the 153 people aboard the …

Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Southern Baptist Convention’s ethics chief was reprimanded Friday and his radio show canceled after he made inflammatory comments about …

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across the nation which has more blacks …

Associated Press NEW YORK — Radio pioneer Harold “Hal” Jackson, a staple of New York radio, has died. He was in his late 90s.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. —  When civil rights activist Ray Robinson arrived at Wounded Knee in April 1973 to stand alongside Native Americans in their fight …

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) —LeRoy Walker, the first African American to lead the U.S. Olympic Committee and the first black man to coach an American Olympic …

Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Tuesday marked the anniversary of 40 years of solitary confinement for two former Black Panthers convicted of murdering …

MIAMI (AP) _ The civil rights groups that turned outrage over Trayvon Martin’s death into action say their work is far from over now that …