“We’ll give you a gift card for a gun,” is the message African-American ministers in San Diego are giving this holiday season. On December 19, the...
A newly released NBC News/Wall Street Journal/theGrio.com poll finds that 49 percent of African-Americans feel the country is headed in the right direction, versus 38 percent...
A past photo of George Wright The lawyer for a captured American fugitive said his client wanted to serve the rest of his jail time in...
Strapped to a gurney in Georgia’s death chamber, Troy Davis lifted his head and declared one last time that he did not kill police officer Mark...
US Supreme Court refuses to block execution of Troy Davis. The court’s decision to deny the stay came after 10 p.m., more than three hours after...
Troy Davis (pictured), the condemned inmate who convinced hundreds of thousands of people but not the justice system of his innocence, filed an eleventh-hour plea Wednesday...
Tennis superstar Serena Williams has been appointed UNICEF‘S newest international Goodwill Ambassador. UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake announced Williams’ appointment on Tuesday, saying she is also...
Troy Davis (pictured), insists he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989 is set to be executed on Wednesday. Georgia’s pardons board has...
CLUTCH - Breaking weeks of silence, Jackson addressed the rumors speaking to the press after a meeting in the Senate Hart Building...
WASHINGTON (AP) - Executive Architect Ed Jackson Jr. told The Associated Press on Sunday that the memorial will now be dedicated Oct. 16. A formal announcement...
The pregnancy rate of African American teenage girls has dropped 44% over the last two decades, the teen birth rate 47%. Over that same period, both...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed Bernice Donald as a judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Speaking in an interview with Reuters, Rice rejected Cheney's contention that she misled President George W. Bush about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea...
MIAMI (AP) - The mounting frustration over jobs is beginning to have political repercussions in the black community...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The site was set to open without fanfare around 11 a.m. to kick off a week of celebrations ahead of Sunday's official dedication...
A U.S. appeals court on Monday reinstated a suit against the City of New Haven by an African-American firefighter who claimed the city’s firefighter promotion exams...
Obama has seen some hits to his national approval rating over the last few weeks as residue from the bruising debt debate, although Congress is even...
Like all of the other Republicans competing in the Ames straw poll, Herman Cain is heading to Iowa for several days of intense campaigning ahead of...
WASHINGTON (AP) - He spoke at the White House as a bill by Republican House Speaker John Boehner to lift the debt ceiling and slash spending...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The NAACP's president is urging South Carolina's Gov. Nikki Haley to remove the Confederate flag that flies near her Statehouse office...
OPINION - While Rep. West went a tad over-the-top in his response, there is a larger issue here about racial and gender stereotypes of black men...
OPINION - The White House is betting most American will tire of the bomb throwers (and that Wall Street will think twice about playing ball with...
In 1962, Frank Smith Jr. left Morehouse College in Atlanta and went to Mississippi as a civil rights activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama and lawmakers pushed separate plans to avert an unprecedented default on America's national debt, with no signs of an immediate breakthrough...
NEWS ONE - Many programs are being created and funded to push young black males along a path to success before the ills of society corrupt...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama and top lawmakers resume tense budget talks Monday at the White House, with both sides under pressure to reach a...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice is leading a U.S. delegation to Juba for Saturday's ceremonies marking the independence of South Sudan, the White...
CHICAGO (AP) - In a statement, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel says Obama and the union share a vision and members wanted early and strong support...
A lot of politicians do a whole lot of talking, but who should be held accountable on the Black unemployment crisis?
NEW YORK (AP) - "I thought he was a d**k yesterday," Halperin said Thursday during a discussion about Obama's news conference on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he believes Democrats and Republicans will reach agreement on reasonable spending cuts and an end to tax cuts for the superwealthy...
Congressional backers of a pardon for Jack Johnson, the world’s first black heavyweight champion who was imprisoned nearly a century ago for his romantic relationships with...
The staffers are Matt Murphy, Cain's New Hampshire campaign director, and Jim Zeiler, the campaign's regional director left due to 'strategic differences'...
ATLANTA (AP) - About 100 presidents of historically black colleges are meeting to discuss their role in the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges...
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--Many Americans changed their perceptions of discrimination and racism after Barack Obama became the nation's first black president...
DETROIT (AP) - The Michigan parole board voted Friday to release former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick from prison after more than a year behind bars...
