Posts in category Black News

Associated PressWASHINGTON — The Great Migration, the 60-year escape from segregation and racism that brought American blacks to the North, has reversed course. Better jobs …

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — For the descendants of African slaves who populate Colombia’s poorest, most corruption-ridden corner, music has long been the most natural of …

Associated Press ATLANTA — The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by the giants of the U.S. civil rights movement, has spent years in decline and …

Staff Writer A black child today is less likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born into slavery and more than …

Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY — A Cherokee Nation court on Friday overturned an amendment to the tribal constitution that denied citizenship to non-Native American descendants …

DETROIT (AP) _ Officials with Detroit’s NAACP branch and Wayne County are discussing a plan to allow the civil rights organization to pay off back …

ALBANY, N.Y. — That late July afternoon in 2008 television screens throughout New York snapped to the image of a stern Gov. David Paterson in …

Here is something to ponder: What do you do about the fact that, in Palm Beach County, for example, only 22 percent of black males …

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) _ South Carolina state Rep. Tim Scott, elected this week as one of the nation’s first black GOP congressmen in years, says …

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia elected its first black mayor on Sunday, an immigrant from Africa known as the “Obama of Piran,” the town where …