African-American News

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.

DETROIT, MI - Video surfaced Tuesday of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addressing a Detroit church last week and it gives his take on the city's challenges and what needs to happen for residents to overcome them.

Byron Bailey Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors vice-chairman Byron Bailey, right, speaks with his attorney, Robert Jones, before going into a private meeting on Monday, May 20.

Throughout American history, restrictions on voter registration were a major tool of disenfranchisement.

"Into the sixties a word was born . . . BLACK." The poet Haki R. Madhubuti composed this line for a poem he wrote decades ago, but when he read it aloud at the South Side Community Art Center recently, the words still reverberated.

Join us for eight terrific events in our speaker series this May and June. These public presentations and discussions focus on the cultural creativity, history, and heritage of the societies and pottery enterprises that flourished in the landscape of the Edgefield District of South Carolina.

African-American adults living closer to a fast food restaurant had a higher body mass index than those who lived further away from fast food, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and this association was particularly strong among those with a lower income.

The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.