African-American News

The suit had claimed that the current at-large voting process "has discriminatory effects on the voting strength of Fayette County's black community" and violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

It seems a stroke of luck for the United States that the Negroes' leader in Montgomery, Alabama, during the present crisis is a scholarly Baptist minister whose hero is Mahatma Gandhi.

If you've had the chance to see the movie 42, which is in theaters now starring Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman and Nicole Beharie, you know a little about Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play major league baseball.

This weekend race parties abound — cookouts in backyards with beer iced in coolers, cocktail parties around swimming pools with bartenders in white jackets, and everything in between.

A traveling exhibit about the Tuskegee Airmen is at New Orleans Lakefront Airport through Saturday.

Republican Gov. Paul LePage has temporarily moved his working space, and Democratic legislative leaders said Thursday he's threatened to move out for good by July 1. The squabble stems from LePage's placement of a television in the hallway outside his State House office, an area that's under the control of legislative leadership.

Union and United States Army Sergeant William Harvey Carvey owns the honorable distinction as the first African-American solider to be awarded the Medal Of Honor for his services to the country during the great Civil War.

With all the events that make up the DC Black Pride weekend, quite a few people from workshop coordinators to town hall facilitators to speed-dating overseers will have that well-known phrase in mind at some point: ''It's showtime!'' In the case of Alan Sharpe, however, not only will he bring the phrase back to its roots, he'll use it twice.

LEAPS AND BOUNDS: Renowned Philadelphia dance company Philadanco performs a 40th anniversary show set to the music of George Clinton at the Rialto Center for the Performing Arts during the 2010 National Black Arts Festival.

Travel back 45 years to April 1968 when America stood divided on the big social issue of the day, Civil Rights and an inspirational Black minister, Dr.

On the latest episode of Detroit Public Television's 'American Black Journal,' Free Press Editorial Page Editor Stephen Henderson talks about a new nonprofit that is helping connect Detroit job-seekers and employers, and also the Bal Africain, a gala at the Detroit Institute of Arts that supports African and African-American art at the museum.

A federal court has struck down Fayette County's at-large method of electing members to certain county offices, saying the method was a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

The leading Jewish civil rights group in the U.S. slammed anti-Semitic comments made in a Detroit church by Minister Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam.

The promotion of Captain Charline B. Stokes makes her the first African American female to attain the rank of battalion chief in the 154-year history of the Baltimore City Fire Department.

E.W. Jackson, Virginia's new Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, said he has nothing to apologize for regarding his startling past comments about abortion, race and homosexuality.

Last month, a house caught fire across the street from the Braddock Hills Volunteer Fire Department.

While the average African-American is feeling more financially secure, many still feel neglected by the financial industry, new research shows.

US President Barack Obama is presented with and honorary doctor of law degree after delivering the commencement address during a ceremony at Morehouse College on May 19, 2013 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Freedom fighters Carl Dix and Cornel West held an intense dialogue about mass incarceration on the Upper West Side Monday evening.

For decades, African Americans have voted more reliably Democratic than any other ethnic or special interest group.