PASADENA, Texas emerges as new battleground on voting rights
By PAUL J. WEBER When the movie “Urban Cowboy” made this refinery town famous in 1980, the honkytonk Gilley’s was booming and wannabe cowpokes from the white Houston suburbs flocked…
African-Americans
AP poll: Police killings of blacks voted top story of 2014
By DAVID CRARY The police killings of unarmed blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere — and the investigations and tumultuous protests they inspired — was the top news story of…
The Jordan Henderson Show – Interview with Michael Long about a presentation called the Soulution
Interview with Michael Long about a presentation called the Soulution, presentation to help African Americans find their identity, learn about our culture, held at metropolitan baptist church, finding yourself and…
50 years ago, ‘Freedom Summer’ changed South, US
By ALLEN G. BREED and SHARON COHEN In this April 4, 2014 photo, Aviva Futorian and Roy DeBerry sit in Futorian’s Chicago apartment. They have been friends since they met…
Daughter: Actress Ruby Dee dead at 91
By KAREN MATTHEWS and MARK KENNEDY FILE – In this Nov. 17, 2010 file photo, Ruby Dee attends a special screening of “Frankie & Alice” in New York. Dee, an…
Some black Miss. Dems supported GOP’s Cochran
By JESSE J. HOLLAND FILE – This June 30, 2009 file photo shows Vicksburg, Miss. Mayor, then-State Rep. George Flaggs, D-Vicksburg speaking at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. With sending…
ACTIVIST POET-PLAYWRIGHT AMIRI BARAKA DIES AT 79
By HILLEL ITALIE FILE – This Oct. 2, 2002 file photo shows Amiri Baraka, New Jersey’s poet laureate during a ceremony at the Newark Public Library in Newark, N.J. Baraka,…
GOV’T: END OVERLY ZEALOUS DISCIPLINE IN SCHOOLS
By KIMBERLY HEFLING FILE – In this July 16, 2010 file photo, Attorney General Eric Holder takes part in news conference in Miami. The Obama administration is issuing new recommendations…