African-American News

A 7-foot-tall statue of famed, lion-maned abolitionist Frederick Douglass that was dedicated Wednesday on Capitol Hill is perhaps best understood as a bronze symbol of the partisan divide in Washington and of racial politics.

When you talk with people who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Detroit's "Walk to Freedom" 50 years ago, they will speak about the spirit of pride, unity, purpose and hope that permeated the crowd of 125,000 as they made their way through Detroit.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig touted the progress the league has made in racial hiring practices while stressing his desire to increase the number of African-American players in the sport.

Southern-cooking Food Network star Paula Deen is currently being sued by the former general manager of her restaurant, Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House in Savannah, Ga.

CeeLo Green and Goodie Mob, the legendary Southern rap group made up of CeeLo, Big Gipp, Khujo & T-Mo, reunited to announce the winners of the "Elevate Young Black Voices" online talent contest in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.

A billboard designed to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in Dallas, Texas has come under scrutiny for featuring a black couple.

'The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.

John England III this morning took his first milestone steps as a federal magistrate judge in his new office at the Hugo L. Black U.S. Courthouse in downtown Birmingham.

Fifty years after the racial upheaval of the 1960s, Americans often like to say they don't see color.

In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first park rangers.

The researchers said their findings indicate that air pollution might, in fact, be a cause of the disease, and they called for a tightening of U.S government standards for annual exposure to NO2.

One of the many striking and often shocking metaphors within "Yeezus," the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives halfway into the 10-song release, during a song called "I'm in It."

U.S. Sen. William "Mo" Cowan said he's done a lot of "cool things" since being appointed to fill the seat left vacant when John F. Kerry became U.S. secretary of state, including meeting top political leaders on a tour of the Middle East and flying, with the president, aboard Air Force One.

Two federal lawsuits brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last week spotlights an issue that is getting increasing attention from home mortgage lenders, rental property owners, local governments, and now the U.S. Supreme Court: "disparate impact."

Saint Paul's College, a historically Black college founded in 1888 in partnership with the Episcopal Church, announced last week that it's shutting down and working to help current students transfer to other institutions.

At a conference held in Baton Rouge at the end of May, called @Large and aimed to attract black conservatives, black Democrat Elbert Guillary, a member of the state legislature, announced that he was switching party and becoming a Republican.

The Question Bridge project , a multimedia art initiative meant to "represent and redefine Black male identity in America," has taken to Kickstarter with Question Bridge Interactive .

James Weldon Johnson lives on in history and is often best-known for his leadership of the NAACP by becoming the organization's first Black manager.

Even if the numbers really aren't as damning as they're made out to be, the decline of African-American players in Major League Baseball is something that the league is very much stressing over.

The university's Sallie Ellis Davis Cultural Arts Center will analyze the significant roles of African-Americans in the workplace through a series of influential Hollywood films and a lecture this month.