Complaint accuses Exxon Mobil of anti-gay bias
One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits ...
Judge: Hollister clothing unfriendly to disabled
A federal judge in Denver is contemplating an injunction against Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and J.M. Hollister LLC after ruling earlier that nearly 250 ...
Court decision pending in NYPD stop-and-frisk case
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 ...
South Africa: Mandela name pulled into politics
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 ...
Court won't get involved in Miss. redistricting
The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting. The Mississippi ...
Charlotte remembers 1963 desegregation 'eat-in'
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 ...
Obama exhorts good deeds by Morehouse graduates
President Barack Obama, in a soaring commencement address on work, sacrifice and opportunity, on Sunday told graduates of historically black Morehouse ...
Michelle Obama speaks of 'hunger' for education
First lady Michelle Obama spoke passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address Friday, ...
NAACP board honors Evers' memory in Miss. capital
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 ...
SC slave cabin dismantled for Smithsonian display
As a cool sea breeze wafted across a 17th century South Carolina plantation that once grew prized sea island cotton, workers this week carefully ...
South Africa: Winnie Mandela's items to be sold
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 ...
Rapper Drake leads BET Awards with 12 nominations
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 ...
MLB improves diversity among senior administration
While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to ...
A census first: Black voter turnout passes whites
Making history, America's blacks voted at higher rates than whites in 2012, lifting Democrat Barack Obama to victory amid voter apathy, particularly ...
First black Italian minister seeks cultural change
Italy's first black Cabinet minister, targeted by racist slurs following her appointment last week, said Friday that Italians aren't racist but that ...
US suicide rate rose sharply among middle-aged
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, ...
Va. journal hires Library of Congress director
A top literary journal founded in 1925 has hired a Library of Congress director to be its new editor. The Virginia Quarterly Review announced ...
Italy race problems seen with black gov't minister
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.
Wall that once divided races remains, teaches
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 ...
South African aviator dies
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 ...
USA Today founder Neuharth dies in Florida at 89
Critics dubbed USA Today "McPaper" when it debuted in 1982, and they accused its founder, Al Neuharth, of dumbing down American journalism with its ...
Rift over Mandela companies deepens
A granddaughter of Nelson Mandela has harshly criticized a longtime associate of the former president and anti-apartheid leader, in an escalation of ...
Chris Tucker to host BET Awards on June 30
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 ...
Correction: Accidental Racist story
In a story April 11 about the song "Accidental Racist," The Associated Press reported incorrectly that Eric Weisbard is a professor at the University ...
Troubled South Africa debates impact of white rule
Few South Africans have the moral stature of retired archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who campaigned against apartheid and now ...
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