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GOP official: SC Gov Haley to tap Scott for Senate
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has chosen Rep. Tim Scott to replace Jim DeMint in the Senate, a move that will make him the first African-American ...
137 police shots, 2 dead: Many questions in Ohio
A chase that ended with 13 officers firing 137 rounds, killing two people, began with a pop — perhaps a gunshot or backfire from a car speeding past ...
AP: Va student expelled for election racial uproar
One student has been expelled and three others are being punished for their roles in a racially charged uproar on a Virginia college campus the night ...
Census: Whites no longer a majority in US by 2043
White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2043, according to new census projections. That's part of a historic shift that already ...
'Flight,' 'Django Unchained' among NAACP nominees
"Flight," ''Django Unchained," ''Beasts of the Southern Wild," ''Red Tails" and "Tyler Perry's Good Deeds" are up for the outstanding motion picture ...
Black women battle obesity with dialogue, action
Nicole Ari Parker was motivated by frustration. For Star Jones, it was a matter of life or death. Toni Carey wanted a fresh start after a bad breakup.
South Africa at crossroads as Mandela hospitalized
Inside a Catholic church that once served as a major rallying point for anti-apartheid activists, the image of a gray-suited Nelson Mandela appears ...
South African icon Nelson Mandela hospitalized
South Africa's former President Nelson Mandela was admitted to a military hospital Saturday for medical tests, though the nation's president told the ...
Illegal immigration drops after decade-long rise
New census data released Thursday affirm a clear and sustained drop in illegal immigration, ending more than a decade of increases. The number of ...
1 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case
A fourth man pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi, and ...
Criticism of Dutch "Black Pete" tradition grows
Foreigners visiting the Netherlands in winter are often surprised to see that the Dutch version of St. Nicholas' helpers have their faces painted ...
Race Card Project creates new type of conversation
She asked for just six words. Michele Norris, the National Public Radio host, was starting a book tour for her memoir, which explored racial secrets.
S. Africa deputy president cagey on leading ANC
South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, the man some have begun to nominate to take over the nation's governing African National Congress ...
Court: S. Africa official delayed Dalai Lama visa
A South African court ruled Thursday that officials "unreasonably delayed" a decision about whether to grant the Dalai Lama a visa for a planned 2011 ...
Jakes Gerwel, friend and aide to Mandela, dies
Jakes Gerwel, who advocated for the end of apartheid in South Africa and became a longtime friend and trusted aide to former President Nelson Mandela, ...
Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot dies at 73
Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get ...
When it comes to gender gap, men play crucial role
Sorry, fellas, but President Barack Obama's re-election makes it official: Women can overrule men at the ballot box. For the first time in research ...
US trucker nabbed with ammo in Mexico is freed
A Dallas trucker imprisoned for seven months in Mexico on accusations that he tried to smuggle assault rifle ammunition into the country broke down ...
Black voters look to leverage their loyalty
When black voters gave President Barack Obama 93 percent support on Election Day in defiance of predictions that they might sit it out this year, ...
US court strikes down Mich. affirmative action ban
Michigan's ban on affirmative action in college admissions was declared unconstitutional Thursday by a deeply divided federal appeals court, six years ...
Top Republicans say Romney didn't offer specifics
Top Republicans meeting for the first time since Election Day say the party failed to unseat President Barack Obama because nominee Mitt Romney did ...
Face of US changing; elections to look different
It's not just the economy, stupid. It's the demographics — the changing face of America. The 2012 elections drove home trends that have been embedded ...
Healing the divisions in postelection America
Baine's Books sits in the heart of this historic village, a Main Street institution where townspeople gather for coffee and conversation and, every ...
High court to take fresh look at voting rights law
The Supreme Court will consider eliminating the government's most potent weapon against racial discrimination at polling places since the 1960s.