African-American News

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.

Social media was ablaze during the season finale of ABC's hit political thriller Scandal .

American writer Gwendolyn Brooks, of Chicago, Ill., poses with her first book of poems titled "A Street in Bronzeville," 1945, in this undated photo at an unknown location.

It's not that the old Mother Bethel Church burial ground has been lost, exactly.

Racism has been a consistent thread weaving through the American Right from the early days when Anti-Federalists battled against the U.S. Constitution to the present when hysterical Tea Partiers denounce the first African-American president.

From the Associated Press, about the conservative Republican : "Virginia Republicans have chosen firebrand conservative minister E.W. Jackson's for lieutenant governor, the first black candidate the party has nominated for statewide office since 1988.

First lady Michelle Obama doled out hugs and quick words of encouragement as each of 170 Martin Luther King Jr.

Kaneisha Gaston's ancestors helped build Davidson College as slaves. Gaston posed for a portrait in front of the Chambers Building on campus.

President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse College to seize the power of their example as black men graduating from college and use it to improve people's lives.

When it comes to buying entertainment for ethnic viewers, there is no-one-size-fits-all concept.

With the IRS scandal dominating the news this week, "Saturday Night Live" closed out their 38th season with a political bang.

A new report on voting in the 2012 presidential election found that blacks in New Jersey, like those across the nation, turned out in greater percentages than any other racial or ethnic group and the youngest voters, those age 18 through 24, turned out in the smallest numbers.

The EAC was created in the aftermath of the disastrous elections of 2000 as part of the Help America Vote Act.

After taking a hard look at life in his tiny segregated Southern town, Robert Smith left home at 19 -- a man on a journey using only his heart as a compass.