http://www.mail.com/subjects/13726-african-americans.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/subjects/13726-african-americans.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097264-court-decision-pending-nypd-stop-and-frisk-case.html NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to department policy, training and supervision. During a 10-week civil rights trial that ended Monday, U.S. District Court Ju... Tue, 21 May 2013 00:45:48 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2097264-court-decision-pending-nypd-stop-and-frisk-case.html 2013-05-21T00:45:48Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2098062-south-africa-mandela-pulled-politics.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela, old and frail, lives in seclusion in his Johannesburg home. Beyond the high walls of the house, the fighting over his image and what he stood for has already begun. The sense of possibility that Mandela embodied is fading as a gulf between rich and poor widens. Many South Africans believe their leaders are out to help t... Mon, 20 May 2013 17:38:35 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2098062-south-africa-mandela-pulled-politics.html 2013-05-20T17:38:35Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2097938-court-wont-involved-miss-redistricting.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting. The Mississippi NAACP had challenged the state's 2011 state elections because the Legislature did not immediately use the 2010 census to draw new district lines in 2011. The state House and Senate instead ... Mon, 20 May 2013 15:00:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2097938-court-wont-involved-miss-redistricting.html 2013-05-20T15:00:57Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2096582-charlotte-remembers-1963-desegregation-eat-in.html CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — In the spring of 1963, a prominent civil rights leader led dozens of protesters on a four-mile march from a predominantly African-American college campus to the center of Charlotte's downtown. Dr. Reginald Hawkins warned city leaders that if something wasn't done to end segregation, future marches might not be so peaceful Nearly two... Sun, 19 May 2013 23:36:17 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/lifestyle/2096582-charlotte-remembers-1963-desegregation-eat-in.html 2013-05-19T23:36:17Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2095904-obama-exhorts-good-deeds-morehouse-graduates.html ATLANTA (AP) — 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. The president said his success was due to "the special obligation I felt... Sun, 19 May 2013 19:49:49 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2095904-obama-exhorts-good-deeds-morehouse-graduates.html 2013-05-19T19:49:49Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093522-michelle-obama-speaks-hunger-education.html COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, urging more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University to honor the school's history and to pass their commitment to education on to future generations. In her 15-minute address, the ... Fri, 17 May 2013 18:12:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2093522-michelle-obama-speaks-hunger-education.html 2013-05-17T18:12:30Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091088-naacp-board-honors-evers-memory-miss-capital.html JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — NAACP leaders from around the country are honoring the memory of the group's former Mississippi leader, Medgar Evers, nearly 50 years after he was assassinated outside his Jackson home. NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous and board chairwoman Roslyn Brock helped Evers' widow lay a wreath of yellow and white flowers Thursday at the ... Thu, 16 May 2013 18:52:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2091088-naacp-board-honors-evers-memory-miss-capital.html 2013-05-16T18:52:02Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089700-sc-slave-cabin-dismantled-smithsonian-display.html EDISTO ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully disassembled, measured and numbered wooden planks from a dilapidated antebellum slave cabin. Once one of about two dozen on slave row at Point of Pines Plantation, the cabin will be shi... Thu, 16 May 2013 09:23:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2089700-sc-slave-cabin-dismantled-smithsonian-display.html 2013-05-16T09:23:11Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086970-south-africa-winnie-mandelas-items-to-sold.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Dozens of paintings, a silver tea set and other items belonging to Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie will be auctioned next week to pay off debts she owes to a South African school. The sale will happen at the home of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a polarizing figure who was beloved by many for her role in the anti-apartheid struggle but wa... Wed, 15 May 2013 15:17:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2086970-south-africa-winnie-mandelas-items-to-sold.html 2013-05-15T15:17:07Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2085236-rapper-drake-leads-bet-awards-with-12-nominations.html NEW YORK (AP) — He started from the bottom, but now he's on top at the BET Awards: Drake has 12 nominations. BET announced the nominees Tuesday. Rappers Kendrick Lamar and 2 Chainz are up for eight awards each. Drake is nominated three times for the top prize, video of the year. His hit, "Started From the Bottom," will compete with his collaborations with... Tue, 14 May 2013 21:04:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2085236-rapper-drake-leads-bet-awards-with-12-nominations.html 2013-05-14T21:04:40Z http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2085104-mlb-improves-diversity-senior-administration.html NEW YORK (AP) — While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 per... Tue, 14 May 2013 17:52:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/baseball/2085104-mlb-improves-diversity-senior-administration.html 2013-05-14T17:52:12Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2072522-census-first-black-voter-turnout-passes-whites.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Making history, America's blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly among young people, new census data show. Despite increasing population, the number of white voters declined for the first time since 1996. Blacks were the only race or ethnic group to show ... Wed, 08 May 2013 21:06:38 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2072522-census-first-black-voter-turnout-passes-whites.html 2013-05-08T21:06:38Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2061106-black-italian-minister-seeks-cultural-change.html ROME (AP) — Italy's first black Cabinet minister, targeted by racist slurs following her appointment last week, said Friday that Italians aren't racist but that some are merely ignorant of other cultures and the "richness" that immigration can bring. Congolese-born surgeon Cecile Kyenge held a news conference to introduce herself to Italians so they could... Fri, 03 May 2013 17:08:52 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2061106-black-italian-minister-seeks-cultural-change.html 2013-05-03T17:08:52Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2058692-us-suicide-rate-rose-sharply-middle-aged.html NEW YORK (AP) — The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28 percent in a decade, a period that included the recession and the mortgage crisis, the government reported Thursday. The trend was most pronounced among white men and women in that age group. Their suicide rate jumped 40 percent between 1999 and 2010. But the rates in youn... Thu, 02 May 2013 21:11:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2058692-us-suicide-rate-rose-sharply-middle-aged.html 2013-05-02T21:11:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2056892-va-journal-hires-library-congress-director.html CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A top literary journal founded in 1925 has hired a Library of Congress director to be its new editor. The Virginia Quarterly Review announced Wednesday that W. Ralph Eubanks will take over as editor, effective June 3. Eubanks is director of publishing at the library and becomes the Review's first black editor. There has been no... Wed, 01 May 2013 20:03:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2056892-va-journal-hires-library-congress-director.html 2013-05-01T20:03:15Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2055744-italy-race-problems-with-black-govt-minister.html ROME (AP) — It was hailed as a giant step forward for racial integration in a country that has long been ill at ease with its growing immigrant classes. But Cecile Kyenge's appointment as Italy's first black Cabinet minister has instead exposed the nation's ugly race problem, a blight that flares regularly on the soccer pitch with racist taunts and in the diatribes of xenoph... Wed, 01 May 2013 16:46:50 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2055744-italy-race-problems-with-black-govt-minister.html 2013-05-01T16:46:50Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2055374-wall-that-divided-races-remains-teaches.html DETROIT (AP) — When Eva Nelson-McClendon first moved to Detroit's Birwood Street in 1959, she didn't know much about the wall across the street. At 6 feet tall and a foot thick, it wasn't so imposing, running as it did between houses on her street and one over. Then she started to hear the talk. Neighbors told her the wall was built two decades earlier wi... Wed, 01 May 2013 07:10:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2055374-wall-that-divided-races-remains-teaches.html 2013-05-01T07:10:58Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2043774-south-african-aviator-dies.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Laurie Kay, a South African pilot best known for flying a Boeing 747 passenger jet low over a Johannesburg stadium before the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, has died at the age of 67. Kay had a suspected heart attack on Wednesday at the offices of the anti-rhinoceros poaching unit in Kruger National Park, South Africa's showcase ga... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 20:47:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2043774-south-african-aviator-dies.html 2013-04-25T20:47:58Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2032574-usa-today-founder-neuharth-dies-florida-89.html COCOA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Critics dubbed USA Today "McPaper" when it debuted in 1982, and they accused its founder, Al Neuharth, of dumbing down American journalism with its easy-to-read articles and bright graphics. Neuharth had the last laugh when USA Today became the nation's most-circulated newspaper in the late 1990s. The hard-charging founder of USA ... Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:27:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2032574-usa-today-founder-neuharth-dies-florida-89.html 2013-04-20T01:27:06Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025316-rift-mandela-companies-deepens.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has harshly criticized a longtime associate of the former president and anti-apartheid leader, in an escalation of a dispute over funds linked to one of the world's most revered figures. Tukwini Mandela accused lawyer George Bizos of insulting her mother, slandering the Mandela family name and spreadin... Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:31:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2025316-rift-mandela-companies-deepens.html 2013-04-17T18:31:30Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2023564-chris-tucker-to-host-bet-awards-june-30.html NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Tucker will host this year's BET Awards. The network announced Tuesday that the comedian-actor will host the show June 30 from the Nokia Theater L.A. Live. Tucker is riding high off of his supporting role in the Oscar-nominated film "Silver Linings Playbook," which starred Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. The 41-year-old is best... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:02:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2023564-chris-tucker-to-host-bet-awards-june-30.html 2013-04-16T18:02:57Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2014272-correction-accidental-racist-story.html In a story April 11 about the song "Accidental Racist," The Associated Press reported incorrectly that Eric Weisbard is a professor at the University of Mississippi. He teaches at the University of Alabama. A corrected version of the story is below: A country song, assumptions — and a racial outcry Can you really be an 'Accidental Racist'? A country song ... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:36:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/2014272-correction-accidental-racist-story.html 2013-04-12T16:36:47Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2015868-troubled-south-africa-debates-impact-white-rule.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now laments the crime and inequality that plague the nation two decades after it cast off racist white rule. "We can't pretend we have remained at the same heights and that's why I say please, ... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:06:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2015868-troubled-south-africa-debates-impact-white-rule.html 2013-04-12T15:06:22Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2015426-medgar-evers-to-remembered-50-years-death.html JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The widow of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was killed by a white supremacist outside his Jackson, Miss., home in 1963, laments that her husband is remembered primarily as an assassination victim. This June, to mark the 50th anniversary of his slaying, a series of events will pay tribute to Evers' work toward racial equality d... Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:48:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2015426-medgar-evers-to-remembered-50-years-death.html 2013-04-12T10:48:40Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/2011444-survivor-63-ala-church-bombing-seeks-funds.html BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and won't accept a top congressional award proposed to honor the victims. Sarah Collins Rudolph, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she feels forgotten 50 years after the bl... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:43:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/2011444-survivor-63-ala-church-bombing-seeks-funds.html 2013-04-10T23:43:07Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2010764-paul-gop-faces-daunting-task-with-black-voters.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that Republicans face long odds in connecting with black voters and are often cast as unsympathetic to the needs of blacks and minorities — something he says the party needs to change. Paul, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, said in a speech at Howard University that the Republican party was ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:23:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2010764-paul-gop-faces-daunting-task-with-black-voters.html 2013-04-10T18:23:11Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2010598-blacks-face-challenges-economic-equality.html WASHINGTON (AP) — African-Americans have achieved tremendous gains in education over the past 50 years, but that has yet to translate into major progress toward economic equality, the National Urban League says in its latest State of Black America report. This year's report, "Redeem the Dream: Jobs Rebuild America," identifies unemployment as the biggest ... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:38:57 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2010598-blacks-face-challenges-economic-equality.html 2013-04-10T16:38:57Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2002418-south-africa-mandela-discharged-hospital.html JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former President Nelson Mandela was discharged from a hospital on Saturday following treatment for pneumonia, the presidency said in news that cheered South Africans who had waited tensely for health updates on a beloved national figure. Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who spent 27 years in prison for opposing white racist rule, was... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:23:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2002418-south-africa-mandela-discharged-hospital.html 2013-04-06T15:23:09Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/2002080-cuba-culture-official-demoted-ny-times-op-ed.html HAVANA (AP) — A leading Cuban cultural official said Friday that he has been demoted nearly two weeks after he published an opinion piece in the New York Times that criticized "blatant racism" on the island. In a phone interview with The Associated Press in Havana, Roberto Zurbano refused to speculate on whether his demotion from publishing director at th... Sat, 06 Apr 2013 03:26:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/2002080-cuba-culture-official-demoted-ny-times-op-ed.html 2013-04-06T03:26:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2000004-ala-lawmakers-vote-to-pardon-scottsboro-boys.html MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The legacy of the "Scottsboro Boys" is secure: The nine black teens were wrongly convicted more than 80 years ago in one of America's most infamous racial tragedies. Alabama is now moving to repair its own legacy, and correct past injustices, with a bill to allow posthumous pardons for the group. On Thursday, the state House voted ... Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:31:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/2000004-ala-lawmakers-vote-to-pardon-scottsboro-boys.html 2013-04-05T08:31:43Z