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DoLores Smith Washington recently celebrated her “Diamond Jubilee” in Miami. Washington’s friends, Shirley Lewis Archie, Evelyn Bethune (Tampa), Priscilla Adams Dobbs and Geneva Woodard, served …

WASHINGTON — Ice cream lovers beware: The government knows you’re unlikely to stop after half a cup.

From running with gangs to lobbying before the Miami-Dade legislative delegation, Stephanie Barker marvels at the ways she’s changed since joining the Key Clubhouse three …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The photograph of the young man was famous — a civil rights marcher in a sweater being attacked on May 3, 1963 …

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Disc jockey “Porky” Chedwick, who became an institution by promoting R&B artists in the late 1940s and 1950s, has died. He was …

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — Christian ministry’s long-stalled plans to build a replica of Noah’s Ark in the hills of Kentucky have been revived.

WASHINGTON — Pastor Michael McBride celebrated President Barack Obama’s Feb. 27 announcement of the “My Brother’s Keeper” Task Force, and renewed his resolve to amplify …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – House Democratic leader Perry Thurston says the hundreds that attended the "Moral Monday'' event at the Capitol are shining a light …

CELEBRATING BLACK HOLLYWOOD BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – “This is historic!” a photographer yelled as he surveyed the image before him — Sidney Poitier in the …

So here is how some of Hollywood’s black stars spent the days leading up to Sunday’s Academy Awards: they sipped on Rémy Martin cocktails and …