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NEW YORK – Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – The attorney for a woman who accused star Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston of sexual assault said Thursday that she intends …

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A toddler who was being cursed at and being encouraged to curse in a video posted online has been placed in …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Florida Gov. Rick Scott is being sued over his decision to leave the post of lieutenant governor vacant for nearly nine …

MIAMI – While they died in relative obscurity, the lives of 102 homeless individuals from Miami-Dade were honored and remembered at the annual Homeless Persons’ …

PORT-AU-PRINCE – At the Olde Good Things antique store on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a French crystal chandelier can go for tens of thousands of …

DEERFIELD BEACH – Uron Wilson was only 15 when, he says, a violent and abusive home life forced him to live on the streets and …

Three high schools. Three educational icons in their communities. Three persistently failing institutions. And now they have something else in common. Boynton Beach in Palm …

DETROIT (AP) – Harold Varner, an architect on the design team for Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, has died at age …

Nationwide, African-American girls continue to be disproportionately over-represented among girls in confinement and court-ordered residential placements.