Posts in category National & World

By KRISTA LARSON, Oct. 9, 2014 (AP) First 16-year-old Promise Cooper’s mother complained of a hurting head and raging fever, and she died days later on the way …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way Monday for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States and may have …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Jean-Claude Duvalier, who presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as the self-proclaimed “president for life” …

By DEREK KINNER Associated Press JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A homeless man living in his truck helped police solve the fatal shooting of a black teenager …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey and performer-activist Harry Belafonte were among those honored at Harvard University on Tuesday at its annual celebration of African …

By PAUL SCHOTT Greenwich Time GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Census records do not know for sure, but they put Peter John Lee between the ages …

The state of Florida accounts for 181,437 or 9.4 percent of the nation’s black-owned businesses, making it the third highest state behind New York and …

TAMPA (AP) — Tampa Bay area law enforcement agencies are taking a hard look at the makeup of their forces in the wake of last …

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The North Carolina NAACP and its “Moral Monday” legislative protest movement is going door-to-door with its message.