Posts in category Black News

With the passing of civil rights legends Benjamin Hooks and Dorothy Height within days of each other, the national landscape in the fight for equality …

ALBANY, New York (AP) — Black conservatives are used to having to defend their values, but they now are really taking heat for their involvement …

NEW YORK (AP) _ New York Gov. David Paterson might have won some time when he received what has become rare support from influential black …

Five little words – “I forgot he was black” – have caused a furor in the United States and exposed a contradiction in the idea …

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans’ black political base is one more victim of Hurricane Katrina. The storm decimated once-thriving black, middle-class neighborhoods, undercutting efforts …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In the battle against black unemployment, places like the Opportunities Industrialization Center are ground zero. Savory aromas wafted from a king-size kitchen …

Amid all the headlines generated by Tiger Woods’ troubles _ the puzzling car accident, the suggestions of marital turmoil and multiple mistresses _ little attention …

ATLANTA (AP) _ When the final votes are counted, it’s likely the black political machine that integrated Atlanta’s City Hall _ and kept it that …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) _ Megan Williams’ shocking accusations initially strained the imagination: Seven white people beat her with sticks, forced her to eat feces, raped …

CHEYNEY, Pa. (AP) _ Lenny Macklin made it to 10th grade before having a teacher who looked like him _ an African-American male. Gregory Georges …