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Before African Americans created the blues and gospel music, work songs and spirituals were their mainstays. The phenomenal history of black survival from the Middle …

Audrey and Frank Peterman are our nation’s authorities on how to get minorities involved in experiencing the 391 units of the National Park System. In …

Apparently, there is little or no argument that poverty, drug addiction, HIV/AIDS, incarceration of black males, mis-education, and other debilitating factors disproportionately affect African Americans.

I don't know of anyone who would get into a losing argument with black women about the virtue of birth control, and, by extension in …

Do not back up; do not back down, black America. Do not give in another inch, not one iota. Hold the line! To do this, …

A moderate Colin Powell-type Republican Party would probably attract significant numbers of independents, non-Cuban Hispanics and African Americans. Such a happening is especially likely among …

The Mississippi-born black protest writer Richard Wright, a master craftsman, utilized the novel form of expression to elucidate through theme, characters and setting what he …

Clinging activism sometimes takes one step backward to propel two steps forward. It has produced awareness among urban and rural minority populations, including the elderly …

In one of his many great speeches fortunately recorded for posterity, Malcolm X talked about the house Negro and the field Negro. Malcolm said, “When …

Well, the Meek family will come out of the 2010 Florida political debacle in great shape, as Kendrick Meek loses his bid to move up …