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07/18/11 WASHINGTON (AFP) - With a fife and drum band playing Yankee Doodle and civil war re-enactors sweltering in the summer sun, a museum honoring the contribution of African Americans in the US Civil War moved into its new home in Washington Monday.
07/13/11 Ex-convicts may soon become a "protected class" in San Francisco - joining African Americans, Latinos, gays, transgender people, pregnant women and the disabled. A proposal being circulated at City Hall would make it...
07/09/11 Unemployment among African Americans has stayed high since recession's end - that and other economic data show decline of the black middle class
07/01/11 July 3rd honors the third and decisive day of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863 that turned the course of the Civil War. It also honors the life of Union soldier John Tommy who lost his life that day. Everyone knows whites and African Americans...
06/29/11 A federal judge has granted Saratoga Springs a new trial in a 6-year-old racial discrimination lawsuit brought by the Anderson Group, which could overturn $1 million in damages that a federal jury awarded to the real estate company. After a nine-day trial last year, a seven-member jury found that the city discriminated against African Americans and families with children when it rejected the ...
06/26/11 A three-year CDC campaign to provide HIV testing for people has resulted in 18,432 new diagnoses, according to the LA Times. The three-year effort was targeted in 24 states and the District of Columbia, with a special focus on African Americans, who made up about 60 percent of the test and 70 percent of the diagnoses. Between 2007 and 2010, the CDC reports, it conducted 2.8 million tests, with ...
06/26/11 Whether it's access to ball fields, the expense of equipment or opportunities in other sports, fewer African Americans are playing baseball today than in previous decades. Although he grew to be as tall as a power forward and as strong and fast as an All-Pro tight end, Dave Winfield was destined to be a baseball player. He even has a baseball date of birth.
06/24/11 PHILADELPHIA, June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A University of Pennsylvania study will determine if public transit can convey more than people going from point A to point B. Video displays on public buses in Los Angeles will be used to help determine the efficacy of an innovative soap opera-like video program designed to increase HIV testing among low-income African Americans 14 to 24 ...
06/24/11 The Revolutionary War was a struggle for liberty, yet until 2008 there was no record for thousands of African Americans who fought for freedom from two masters, the British, and their owners.
06/24/11 Conference: Nearly 400 African-Americans buried at Hunter after Civil War still unidentified A detailed report about the unidentified remains of nearly 400 African Americans, buried after the Civil War and found in forgotten cemeteries at Hunter Army Airfield, is nearing completion. The report that's taken nearly five years to compile will be available soon to the public, said Valerie Davis ...
06/24/11 Every major demographic group in New York City grew in the last 10 years except for African Americans, whose numbers dropped by 2 percent. In some parts of the city, the decline was dramatic, with parts of Harlem, Fort Greene and Jamaica, Queens losing 30 to 40 percent of their black population. Much of the city's black population has moved south, including one group of former New Yorkers who ...
06/24/11 Time Warner Cable and a panel of celebrity judges have selected four winners to appear in the operator's upcoming talk show targeting African Americans.
06/22/11 The New York Times published an article earlier this morning with research that shows more African Americans are packing up and heading for the South from Urban cities across all coasts.
06/15/11 The Talladega County GOP is bringing a "Frederick Douglass Republican" to town to begin a push to bring more African Americans into the GOP.
06/13/11 As America embarks on four years of Civil War commemorations, it revives an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the conflict: how to view the role of African Americans in the Confederacy.
06/09/11 African-American History Exhibit. Through May 31. The exhibit focuses on the history of African Americans and their contributions to the United States. The display includes information on kings and queens of Africa, patents and registration of inventions by African Americans, a model of a wooden house built by slaves, photographs, artwork, and emotionally-charged artifacts such as shackles and a ...
06/09/11 A Latino gang called Varrio Azura 13 was indicted by federal prosecutors for attacks on African Americans that were described as an attempt at racial cleansing in the town of Azura, California.
06/07/11 Authorities say African Americans for years were victims of assault, robbery and vandalism. The gang feared a threat to its drug trade, but innocent people were allegedly targeted solely because of their race. An Azusa street gang's campaign against blacks began during a meeting at a local park in 1992.
06/01/11 Family and friends are remembering the East Texas World War II veteran who blazed a trail for African Americans in the US Air Force. Captain Sam Garrison died Thursday at the age of 88.
05/29/11 The county chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last week publicly asked County Executive John R. Leopold to review the hiring and employment practices of the Anne Arundel County Public Library System. Reiterating a request she made privately earlier this year, chapter President Jacqueline Boone Allsup asked Leopold to investigate why so few African Americans ...
05/27/11 Growing up in Hazlehurst, Miss., Dorothy Smith heard stories about life in the North. Things were different than in the South, she heard. African Americans would have opportunities there. | 
