Posts in category National & World

Lena Horne, the enchanting jazz singer and actress who reviled the bigotry that allowed her to entertain white audiences but not socialize with them, slowing …

JARRATT, Va. (AP) —Kendall Gibson would seem to be one of Virginia’s most dangerous prisoners. For more than 10 years he has lived in segregation …

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — It’s never been tried before, but crews were hoping to lower a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile under …

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti (AP) — You name it, Camp Corail has got it. And Camp Obama does not. The organized relocation camp at Corail-Cesselesse has thousands …

NEW YORK _ The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, April 27, 45 years …

MIAMI SHORES (AP) — The pope has accepted the resignation of Miami Archbishop John Favalora and named Orlando’s bishop to replace him. Favalora in December …

Dorothy Height, hailed as the “godmother of the civil rights movement” as a participant in historic marches with Martin Luther King Jr. and others, died …

NEW YORK (AP) _ The Rev. Al Sharpton is a “lightning rod” for President Barack Obama on inner-city streets, Obama’s former Harvard mentor and friend …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who increased the NAACP’s stature as its executive director, died Thursday, …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Benjamin L. Hooks, who as executive director of the NAACP was a champion for the poor and minorities, died Thursday, according to …