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High court to take new 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.
Morocco activists slam African migrant treatment
Dozens of Moroccan and foreign activists demonstrated Friday in front of a Rabat courthouse where a Guinean advocate for sub-Saharan migrants in ...
Presidential, social votes show changing mindsets
Tuesday's presidential election results showed the American voting public has not only become more permanently diverse in its makeup, but also in its ...
Thousands mourn NIreland prison guard slain by IRA
Thousands of mourners lined the main street of a central Northern Ireland town Tuesday to bid farewell to a prison officer slain by Irish Republican ...
Poll challenges, phony instructions could mar vote
Persistent reports of robocalls incorrectly telling voters they can cast ballots over the phone and fears of aggressive challenges by monitors at ...
Campbell, 1st black Olympic decathlon winner, dies
Milt Campbell, who became the first African-American to win the Olympic decathlon in 1956 and went on to play pro football and become a motivational ...
3 IRA suspects arrested over prison guard killing
Northern Ireland police arrested three suspected Irish Republican Army militants Friday on suspicion of killing an off-duty prison officer, a rare ...
Zimbabwe's white minister: Racist insults persist
Zimbabwe's only white government minister has said racial slurs against whites at the highest political level continue to show "a gross level of ...
Out of reach today, minorities a key to GOP future
It's a fairly safe bet, based on polls and history, that non-Hispanic white voters will choose Republican Mitt Romney by a wide margin in Tuesday's ...
Civility efforts seek better behavior on campus
Jewish students in the University of California system labeled terrorists for their support of Israel. Black high school students pelted by bananas ...
Spelman College chooses fitness over athletics
Sports began on American college campuses as a way for students to blow off steam and be healthy. Over the last century and a half, athletics have ...
No high court action on voting rights law
Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to ...
Trial in 1977 killing asks: Were suspects framed?
Two black men wrongly convicted in the 1977 murder of a white Iowa police officer hope to prove something they couldn't during trials that sent them ...
High court weighs new look at voting rights law
Three years ago, the Supreme Court warned there could be constitutional problems with a landmark civil rights law that has opened voting booths to ...
AP poll: Majority harbor prejudice against blacks
Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a ...
Love hopes to be 1st black GOP woman in Congress
In her bid to become the first black Republican woman elected to Congress, Mia Love is the party's emblem of diversity this campaign year.
CPR less likely for minorities on street or home
People who collapse from cardiac arrest in poor black neighborhoods are half as likely to get CPR from family members at home or bystanders on the ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Issues at stake in election
A selection of issues at stake in the presidential election and their impact on Americans, in brief: ___ Abortion: Abortion and birth control are ...
Louisiana woman says 3 racist men set her on fire
A 20-year-old black woman said she was set on fire by three men who wrote the initials KKK and a racial slur on her car in northeastern Louisiana, ...
Virginia politics shaped by population shifts
For 10 presidential races in a row, Virginia voted reliably Republican. Then came 2008, and Barack Obama's victory. Now the GOP is battling to take ...
SAfrican photographer who depicted apartheid dies
Alfred Kumalo, a South African photographer whose work chronicled the brutalities of apartheid and the rise of Nelson Mandela, died of renal failure ...
WHY IT MATTERS: Race
The issue: The nation's complexion is rapidly changing. A more racially and ethnically diverse population is rising so that, perhaps within three ...
Oprah-approved: Ava DuVernay fires up black cinema
The rebirth of black independent film is taking place in a small office in the San Fernando Valley. This is where filmmaker Ava DuVernay and her staff ...
Deaf university roiled by gay marriage controversy
Gallaudet University is under fire from both proponents and opponents of gay marriage after placing an administrator on leave for signing a petition ...
Nightmare election scenarios worry both parties
Here in a county that knows a thing or two about Election Day meltdowns, both parties are fretting over what might go seriously wrong before, during ...