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According to a study by Sentier Research , a private firm specializing in income statistics, non-Hispanic whites reap 76 percent of the nation's total wages and other income, even though they were just 64 percent of the population in 2010.

South Carolina State University has named a senior fellow at Howard University School of Pharmacy as the school's new interim president.

Journal Photo by Bruce Chapman: The Rev. Dr. Jerry Drayton of New Bethel Baptist Church in Winston-Salem NC will be retiring after 60 years of service at the church.

Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African-American woman to hold a cabinet position, serve as U.S. ambassador and head a law school.

Five Howard University Army Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets were commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army during a May 10 ceremony in Howard's Armour J. Blackburn University Center.

A recent paper by a professor at Howard University , argues that "black family instability" and "social violence" in the black community has as a central cause a parenting style that involves "obedience training and rigid physical violence including emotional neglect" traceable all of the way back to West Africa, while not crediting economic causes ... (more)

Tony Benjamin says that rappers Jamie Foxx and T-Pain are wrong: The artists' No.

Clarise McCants of Philadelphia, a Howard University political science major, center, flanked by Sen.

Thumbnail sketches of the eight female and four male jurors who will decide whether pitcher Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied using performance-enhancing drugs, following Tuesday's dismissal of a juror whose mother has died.

Lovell Dyett, a longtime talk show host on WBZ NewsRadio 1030, has passed away after a long illness.

My husband Kelvin Barlow- Flournoy and myself was the first LGBT Couple to wed at Howard University School of Divinity in Washington, DC.

Howard University's Students Against Mass Incarceration is one among other organizations meeting with a Public Safety commissioner on Tuesday, May 29, 2012 at 9 a.m.A The meeting is in reference to reinstating of their Friend of a Friend Program at Jessup Correctional Institution .A In April 2012, the program was shut down at JCI, and according to ... (more)

If Ne-Yo had a song called ''Mr. Independent,'' it would be Jacques 's signature tune.

In 1940, the office-tower core of downtown Washington, D.C., was the black section of town; much of Southeast was entirely white; the suburbs did not exist and almost no one went to college.

Martel Perry is the fifth generation of his family to graduate from college. He is the last generation of his family to remember relatives who knew those that had lived as slaves.

The Hudson River extends like the sun from the back of Toni Morrison's house, illuminated and infinite, undimmed by an unseasonably drab spring afternoon.

Toni Morrison, whose novel "Home" enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 9 this week, remembers being confronted by a stark image of race relations as a freshman at Howard University.

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When you hear the word "sorority," what comes to mind? Pillow fights? Big white mansions? Pearls and sweater sets? While that's what Hollywood would have you imagine, in reality, it's not exactly like that.

A true broadcast legend, HAL JACKSON, former Vice-Chairman of INNER CITY BROADCASTING has passed.