Posts in category Black News

WASHINGTON (AP) _ At his inaugural parade a half-century ago, President John F. Kennedy watched the U.S. Coast Guard Academy’s marching unit pass him on …

PITTSBURGH (AP) -A black teen who attended the city’s performing arts high school has filed a federal lawsuit saying three white Pittsburgh police officers wrongfully beat …

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) Forty years ago, Alabama football fans watched Southern California and a black running back named Sam Cunningham trounce coach Paul “Bear” Bryant’s …

WASHINGTON (AP) — These were supposed to be heady days for African Americans in Congress, with President Barack Obama occupying the White House and a …

ATLANTA (AP) _ The Rev. Bernice King is waiting out the infighting at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and will not take the helm of …

NEW YORK (AP) _ The aftermath of Megyn Kelly’s interview with a former Justice Department lawyer over a New Black Panther Party case has made …

With the passing of civil rights legends Benjamin Hooks and Dorothy Height within days of each other, the national landscape in the fight for equality …

ALBANY, New York (AP) — Black conservatives are used to having to defend their values, but they now are really taking heat for their involvement …

NEW YORK (AP) _ New York Gov. David Paterson might have won some time when he received what has become rare support from influential black …

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