NEW YORK (AP) — The NAACP elected a health care executive as its youngest board chairman Saturday, continuing a movement toward younger leadership for the …

LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The scene was eerily familiar, Katherine Jackson and her family walking grimly into a courtroom, occupying a special family row, demonstrating …

Five little words – “I forgot he was black” – have caused a furor in the United States and exposed a contradiction in the idea …

Rex Nettleford, one of Jamaica’s cultural icons, died Tuesday at George Washington Hospital in Washington, D.C., a week after suffering a heart attack at a …

ATLANTA (AP) _ Civil rights icon Joseph Lowery is in an Atlanta hospital because of respiratory problems. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a friend of …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A French search team that wouldn’t go home pulled off another “miracle” rescue in Port-au-Prince, lifting a 17-year-old girl alive from …

After viewing the Academy Awards as a nine-year old girl, Yvonne McCormack-Lyons dreamed of becoming an actress, and finding herself in the midst of glitz …

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti’s capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday, a setback for an administration still trying to …

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding for the first time that they may have to accept a less ambitious …