African-American News

Watching a diverse, powerful coalition of groups in North Omaha, Nebraska, come together against a coal plant has been inspiring in the past few months.

As she settles in as the first African American woman to become a Baltimore Fire Department battalion chief, Charline B. Stokes can look back over a bumpy road.

Islamic Minister Louis Farrakhan , known for his history as a civil rights leader for the African American community, seems to be getting deeper into trouble for his anti-Semitic speech in Detroit, the birth place of the Nation of Islam .

SANDY SPRING, Md. There are new accusations that for 6 years the region's most powerful land use agency has been intentionally hiding public documents that could might turn the tide in favor of an historic African American community in Montgomery County that's fighting to restore their property values.

Chicago is an ethnically diverse city and I can prove it with a book. The title of the book is "The Chicago Area Ethnic Handbook: A Guide To The Cultures and Traditions of our Region's Diverse Communities by Jeryl Levin and Cynthia Linton." In 1997, the Illinois Ethnic Coalition , published the first edition of The Ethnic Handbook: A Guide to the ... (more)

A Bronx teacher says a major misunderstand led to her firing - and now she's during for damages as a result.

Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance.

Tavis Smiley has stood out in 20 years in broadcasting, and he has no intention of changing his style or substance.

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.