VIDEO - With a fresh sense of urgency, President Obama sought to reassure seniors Monday about health care legislation approaching a final vote in Congress...

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - A federal appeals court has upheld the 2007 conviction of a reputed member of the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan in the kidnapping...

Gov. Paterson's top adviser and ex-roommate Clemmie Harris got into a heated argument in 1995 with Harris' then-girlfriend, and it left the woman so scared that she called the cops, according to a report...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The disparity in graduation rates for white and black players on NCAA tournament-bound men's basketball teams grew this year...

From The NY Times - Ushahidi, Swahili for "testimony", is a technological innovation that is revolutionizing crisis response and putting the power to observe and report directly in the hands of victims...

In the wake of actress Gabourey Sidibe's Academy Award nomination for her incredible performance in "Precious," many are predicting she'll never get another part in a Hollywood movie because she's too fat....

VIDEO - Oklahoma state lawmakers are investigating a presidential mystery. A portrait of President Obama keeps moving from a wall in the House chamber...

CHICAGO (AP) - Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization...

NEW YORK (AP) - Tomlinson's agent, Tom Condon, said Sunday that the New York Jets signed the former Chargers running back to a two-year contract.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For decades, it had been assumed that one oil field, the historic Inglewood, just minutes from the downtown skyline, would eventually play out...

VIDEO - The Obama Administration is proposing education changes to ensure students are ready for college or a career rather than grade-level proficiency, dropping "No Child Left Behind"...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama and congressional Democrats are pulling together a final version of a health care overhaul bill and pushing for votes as early as this week...

OPINION - While some might call this political pragmatism, others might describe this outcome as the modern-day version of the Three-Fifths Compromise...

A new Bible attempts to respond to complex questions youths often ask themselves and adults...

OPINION - In an address to a joint session of Congress in 2001, then President Bush blasted racial profiling, "It's wrong and we will end it in America." It hasn't...

Most women know it's hard to find love, but black women specifically may be looking in all the wrong places...

VIDEO - Investors watch the Fed for signs of recovery, while reports on housing, manufacturing, and inflation give businesses insight into the economy...

As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the "tea party" movement is the tale of an average citizen in action...

Jessica Simpson is coming to Gaby Sidibe's defense against Howard Stern for his recent outburst that the Oscar nominee could kiss her Hollywood career goodbye because of her weight...

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) - Jene Newsome played by the rules as an Air Force sergeant: She never told anyone in the military she was a lesbian...

VIDEO - A petite, unassuming young science teacher made history when she became what's believed to be the only female high school head football coach in the country ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - At the White House, officials worked to maximize Obama's influence over lawmakers who control the fate of legislation that has spawned a yearlong struggle...

Watch out, Beyonce the original R&B diva has returned!

HADDONFIELD, NJ (AP) - Before he was rounded up in a sweep of suspected al-Qaida terrorists in Yemen, Sharif Mobley was a laborer at five nuclear plant complexes...

President Obama's former pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. on Wednesday compared the president to a son who was being treated unfairly...

An award-winning video director was unmasked Thursday as a brutal, bizarre serial breeder who repeatedly raped his daughters to create a "pure" bloodline...

VIDEO - First-grader Tevin Smith said he fell asleep during the ride home from Estabrook Elementary in Ypsilanti, Michigan and woke up to find the bus parked in a bus yard...

NEW YORK (AP) - A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway later this year...

The Marcos de Niza seniors, who wrote essays and made a video for the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge...

VIDEO - Police are searching for the heinous individual who heartlessly beat a nun at St. Lucy's Church in Newark, N.J. Thursday morning...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three Los Angeles school teachers who were suspended for honoring O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul in a Black History Month parade will be transferred...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A group of Republican senators raise issues that could jeopardize millions in federal funding for the national charity...

Desirée Rogers began to understand she was in trouble when David Axelrod summoned her to his office last spring to scold her...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama has delayed his first international trip of the year to focus attention on the final push to salvage his health care legislation...

DENVER (AP) - It took prosecutors and police nearly two years to build their case against Clark, partly because those who witnessed the shooting were part of a gang under federal investigation...

OPINION - If this disturbing new study doesn't prove once and for all that America isn't 'post-racial' I don't know what does...

DORAL, Fla. (AP) - Tiger Woods intends to remain out of golf at least until the Masters, two people with knowledge of his plans told The Associated Press...

OPINION - If Lil Wayne regards his cell as an extension of his studio or his label's offices, he will suffer...

OPINION - The amount of money made during March Madness exceeds that which is earned in the playoffs for the NFL, NBA or Major League Baseball...

VIDEO - Women's history month is the time to give recognition to those that have made great strides spanning all time periods, races and occupations...

OPINION - What's notable is reportedly not only did Woods not wear a condom, but his partner's didn't insist upon it...

VIDEO - Several caucus members feel strongly that the president is not listening to their concerns...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Andrew Cuomo, who is widely expected to run for governor, had been criticized for investigating Paterson...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama will give $200,000 to the Bush-Clinton Haiti Fund to help the country recover from the earthquake...

Never let it be said that Wal-Mart doesn't know how to pander for a fast buck. The megachain acknowledged today that it's selling ethnic Barbie dolls for about half of what it charges for Caucasian Barbies...

PATERSON, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man with apocalyptic visions is accused of years of terrorizing his family, raping his five daughters and impregnating three...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Nelson Mandela's ex-wife has bitterly criticized the 92-year-old anti-apartheid icon as having "let us down," prompting outrage in South Africa...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tourists and history buffs will be able to see some rare, personal belongings of abolitionist Harriet Tubman when a museum of African-American history opens on the National Mall...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - When Juanita Goggins became the first black woman elected to the South Carolina Legislature in 1974, she was hailed as a trailblazer and twice visited the president at the White House...

Actress Gabourey Sidibe, who was the focus of shock jock radio host Howard Stern's racist rant on Monday, has landed a movie role and proved Stern wrong at the same time...

Tiger Woods has summoned someone even more significant than swing coach Hank Haney to help facilitate his wildly anticipated comeback...

OPINION - A new study shows that blacks are more economically optimistic than whites, with 36 percent stating that we expect our financial future to improve...

Is online dating capable of doing great things for the Black community...

Atlanta rapper Ludacris and Fox TV talking head Bill O'Reilly ended their feud at recent event they both attended...

OPINION - According the Center for Disease Control nearly half of all African-American women are infected with the HSV-2 virus...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The foreclosure crisis in the U.S. isn't over, but the pace of growth may finally be slowing down...

All Americans are struggling to get more snooze time, but a new report finds that race and cultural differences play a role in sleep- related habits...

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are headed to the White House for a meeting on jobs Thursday, and they'll have a few words to say about how President Barack Obama is doing his.

VIDEO - Take a ride down Broad Street in Selma, and history will greet you nearly every block...

OPINION - By associating Dominican players with blacks, it disguises the fact that MLB has a long way to go in competing with the NFL and NBA in urban communities...

VIDEO - Facing potential bankruptcy, the Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools...

Not everyone had such nice things to say about Gabourey Sidibe following both Oprah and Sandra Bullock's praise of the budding actress during the Oscar ceremony on Sunday...

VIDEO - The carefully constructed, three-hour interviews open a window not only onto black America, but also onto the human condition...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama said the challenge now is "to prevent a second disaster" with the start of the rainy season...

DETROIT (AP) - As guards cleared the packed courtroom, Monica Conyers yelled that she planned to appeal...

Torii Hunter was fuming about the way he came off in a USA Today article examining efforts to develop black talent in baseball...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure...

VIDEO - A New Albany, Indiana man shot and killed one of two dogs that unexpectedly attacked his dog and tried to force its way into his home on Monday...

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) - Meeting Ali will be among the highlights of the spring for many of the Giants...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care...

The Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2)...

PHOENIX (AP) - Torii Hunter has called black Latino baseball players "impostors" when it comes to the appearance of the number of African-Americans in the major leagues...

TULSA, Oklahoma (AP) - Marion Jones has signed with the WNBA's Tulsa Shock, hoping to launch a new career after losing five Olympic medals for using performance-enhancing drugs...

OPINION - The long, sordid and savage history of racist stereotyping of African-Americans has been the stock in trade of race baiting and ridicule and for centuries...

VIDEO - President Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A humbled but defiant Michael Vick was honored Tuesday night as one of 32 NFL players to receive the Ed Block Courage Award...

Was James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., motivated at least in part to kill the civil rights leader by a $100,000 bounty offered by a Mississippi Ku Klux Klan group?...

OPINION - There is an opportunity for Haitian leadership to renegotiate the nation's relationship with the world...

OPINION - Ben Roethlisberger, a white athlete, is innocent until proven guilty, but for black athletes, rapper Jay-Z said it best: Guilty until proven innocent...

PHOENIX (AP) - Authorities in Arizona say rapper DMX has been arrested for allegedly violating his probation by using drugs...

WASHINGTON (AP) - This is part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years...

Rush Limbaugh hurled a racist comment towards embattled New York Governor David Paterson on his radio show Tuesday...

Risk factors leading to higher rates of obesity begin as early as pregnancy, especially among African-American and Hispanic children...

VIDEO - On a good day these break dancers can make $70 to $100 each. But sometimes they get more than money, like contacts that lead to auditions or gigs...

USA Today continues its five-part round table on improving the game, and today they take on a monster: race. Torii Hunter throws a big freakin' bomb:

Who among these influential African-Americans support the president or challenge him the most?...

VIDEO - It's an increase in Alzheimer's cases at a time when heart disease, breast cancer and prostate cancer deaths are all going down...

VIDEO - Protesters marched outside a Washington conference of the big insurance companies that are opposing reform on Tuesday...

VIDEO - Marcelas Owens has been campaigning for changes in the health care system since his mother died after she fell ill and lost her job and her insurance...

Daisey Bailey, believed to the oldest person of African descent in the world, died of organ failure at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on Sunday, 23 days before her 114th birthday...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Exiled Philadelphia 76ers guard Allen Iverson says he's experiencing "tough times" a week after it was decided he would not return to the NBA team and his wife filed for divorce...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Donovan McNabb will be throwing passes to Terrell Owens again...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitian President Rene Preval is heading to the U.S. to discuss what is needed to rebuild his shattered country...

Stern, on the air with his co-host Robin Quivers, also played the speech given by Oprah Winfrey to Sidibe at the Oscars on the program. The hosts said Oprah was lying to her by saying she's going to have a career in Hollywood...

He wasn't up for an Oscar, but "Precious" actor and noted musician Lenny Kravitz was out last night to show his support...

VIDEO - Tuesday, March 9th is the first day same-sex couples can pick up marriage licenses and tie the knot in the city...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama said he wants a former senior Army official with a career in intelligence to lead the Transportation Security Administration...

Dan Rather, longtime anchor at the CBS Evening News and now of HD Net, has been known for his analogies and anecdotes (Ratherisms)...

WASHINGTON - After President Barack Obama was elected, his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, said that she loved her family, but she loved her home in Chicago too...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant to make sure students have equal access and opportunity to everything...

While Washington Republicans are running from plans to privatize Social Security, one GOP House candidate in the south loves the idea and goes a step further...

Walt Baker was fired Monday afternoon by both the Tennessee Hospitality Association and the Greater Nashville Hospitality Association - days after he created a political firestorm by forwarding an e-mail that compared first lady Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee...

"I think it would be unimaginable that two white women would be in this situation."...

TheGrio's 100 - As a rocket scientist, Spio gained notoriety when she joined Boeing as the Head of Satellite Communications Systems at just age 26...

TheGrio's 100 - Tim King was, in his words, the "stereotypical bourgie black kid"...

VIDEO - Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes ...

His closest confidant asked the basketball world to pray for Allen Iverson, as if no one has all these years while seeing this train wreck coming...

VIDEO - Nearly four thousand babies are born at Chicago's Mt. Sinai Hospital each year. To each mother, any gift, even a simple baby gift, makes a difference...

VIDEO- The killers showed no mercy: They didn't spare women and children, or even a 4-day-old baby, from their machetes...

NEW YORK (AP) - Gov. David Paterson is adamantly in the business of governing, taking questions from the public and trying to make clear his authority to negotiate a state budget...

NEW YORK (AP) - Authorities say D'Angelo was caught in New York City trying to pay $40 for sex with an undercover cop posing as a prostitute...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats facing strong headwinds this election season have at least one reason for optimism...

From the Huffington Post - Women of color face an enormous wealth gap when compared to the rest of society, undermining their future economic security...

OPINION - Geoffrey Fletcher's historic win for best adapted screenplay is as monumental as Hattie McDaniel's, Sidney Poitier's and Halle Berry's...

NEW YORK (AP) - After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced...

OPINION - Harlem's voters have something they haven't had the benefit of in quite some time: viable options for his potential replacement...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Hispanic and black businesses are receiving a disproportionately small number of federal stimulus contracts, creating a rising chorus of demands for the Obama administration to be more inclusive...

Police in Gary, Indiana were called to the scene of a concert headlined by Waka Flocka Flame Friday after a fight broke out leaving 8 people shot and injured...

OPINION - In a few lines, a raunchy, off-the-cuff comedian showed reverence, gratitude, tenacity and historical awareness...

In the latest unnecessary onslaught of racial slurs, the CEO of Tennessee's Hospitality Association made the bold decision to send an e-mail out to a group of public figures where he compares the first lady, Michelle Obama, to a chimpanzee...

That's a rather specific way of referring to the congressman -- he could, after all, just as easily be called "the crooked New York Democrat" or simply "the crooked Democrat."...

VIDEO - Selma would provide a spark for then-President Lyndon B. Johnson to sign the 1965 Voting Rights Act...

David Apperson's clothes hang untouched in his closet. His office door remains shut. His Harley-Davidson motorcycle sits in the garage, just where he parked it before he went to Haiti on a business trip in January...

100 percent of first senior class at all male, all African-American Englewood academy is accepted to universities...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to announce Monday that his agency is ramping up enforcement of civil rights laws in schools and colleges, a move that seeks to draw a contrast with the policies of his Republican predecessors...

RICHMOND - Here in the former capital of the Old Confederacy, where resistance to the supremacy of federal law has a long and tortuous history, a new battle is being waged over a question that could undercut a key part of President Obama's health care proposal...

WASHINGTON (AP) - With the fate of his signature legislative initiative far from certain, President Obama is taking his last-ditch push for a health care overhaul on the road...

NEW YORK (AP) - Legal experts say the next few days and weeks could be the most dangerous yet for the embattled administration of Gov. David Paterson...

VIDEO - Detroit police have released a chilling 911 call made by a young girl trying to get help after her parents were shot...

PARIS (AP) - It's taken nearly 30 years, but Stevie Wonder has finally received his medal for being named into France's prestigious National Order of Arts and Letters...

VIDEO - Investors prepare for reports on retail sales, consumer sentiment, and job openings this week as March gets into swing...

TheGrio's 100 - San Francisco voters elected Kamala Harris to be the city's first female District Attorney...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mo'Nique became the fifth black woman to win an acting Oscar, 70 years after Hattie McDaniel became the first to do so for 'Gone with the Wind'...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- U.S. troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the most visible portion of international aid is ending...

SELMA, Alabama (AP) - Georgia Congressman John Lewis strolled to the middle of the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday and remembered the incident 45 years ago...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - Former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was sentenced Friday to 15 years in federal prison for taking clothes, Rolex watches, loan payments and cash worth more than $240,000...

VIDEO - 'Precious' director Lee Daniels is "just happy" to be nominated for an Oscar...

OPINION - Selma, Alabama has long occupied a central place in the story of our nation's long struggle to extend voting rights to African-Americans. In 1965, the town...

Do the nominations of Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Daniels and Freeman herald a real shift in the Academy Awards' rocky reputation with the black community?

OPINION - From 'Avatar' and 'District 9' to 'The Blind Side' and 'Precious', this years Academy Award nominees both directly and indirectly grapple with issues regarding race...

'The Hurt Locker''s Anthony Mackie is just one of a large community of black actors who have yet to be nominated for Hollywood's highest honor...

Though the movie was based on fiction, the circumstances that Precious faces are happening to many African-American girls and the counselors who work with them...

TheGrio's 100 - Mo'Nique made a career for herself as a brash but smart comedienne, breaking down barriers...

Whether or not African-Americans make history at the Oscars, we can look back proudly on these films and performances...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - 'Precious' took the best picture prize as it dominated the Spirit Awards, winning four other honors that included trophies for stars Sidibe and Mo'Nique...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson says he expects to clear his name soon in two scandals threatening his administration...

Kanye West has kept a fairly low profile in recent months, but soon you'll be able to catch him -- or at least his animated alter ego...

In the video Jermajesty is talking to the camera when his older brother Jaaffar knocks him off out of the frame with a swift punch...

It was the president of rap meeting the President of the United States...

Tiger Woods just blew off a $75 million dollar endorsement offer from an Irish gambling company -- and that is how you know you're rich...

VIDEO - There is clearly no resemblance, but police in say that didn't stop 54-year-old Patrick Lynch from telling patients for months that he was Doctor Andrew Nelson...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says Obama and President Rene Preval will meet on Wednesday...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The one-shoulder, white chiffon gown first lady Michelle Obama wore to the inaugural balls is going on display...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson might have won some time when he received what has become rare support from influential black leaders as he tries to ride out allegations in two scandals...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two subsidiaries of American International Group Inc. have agreed to pay $7.1 million to settle discrimination allegations of charging higher fees to African-American borrowers...

OPINION - Governor Paterson, when you've got Reverend Al calling a meeting at Sylvia's, you shouldn't wait to be asked, it's time to do the right thing...

VIDEO - The figures suggest the job market is slowly healing but that significant hiring has yet to occur...

REVIEW - As a piece of entertainment Antoine Fuqua's new film is first-rate but as food for thought it falls short...

African-Americans make up 12 percent of the U.S. population, but account for 46 percent of those living with HIV...

OPINION - This year it's the same ol' Oscar drama and not some new enlightened age...

VIDEO - Twenty years after '227' went off the air, the cast reunites to talk to theGrio about the state of African-Americans on television...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Gay and lesbian couples will soon be able to marry in Washington, but the debate over same-sex marriage has sounded different here...

NEW YORK (AP) - The driver who accused British supermodel Naomi Campbell of assaulting him said Thursday through his lawyer that he "got angry and overreacted"...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Despite doubts that it'll create many jobs, the House passed legislation giving companies that hire the jobless a temporary payroll tax break...

Within minutes of Rogers' "astonishing" resignation Friday, Mingo and a friend created a Facebook group, "Toast to Ms. Desiree Rogers, White House Social Secretary."...

VIDEO - A 12-year-old girl is being credited with stopping a burglary suspect from coming into her Missouri City, Texas home...

VIDEO - As health care reform continues to dominate the agenda in Washington, a hearing today focused on prostate cancer...

OPINION - Most football owners seem intent on standing idly by while costly concerns twist aimlessly in the wind...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The top spokesman for New York Gov. David Paterson is resigning and says he can't in good conscience continue to serve...

ATLANTA (AP) - Long before the nation obsessed over the sleeves of its black first lady, Eunice Johnson was shining a spotlight on black beauty and style...

VIDEO - Ray Charles started his musical career at the age of five on a piano in a small cafe in Jacksonville, Florida where his family lived...

VIDEO - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Animal Care and Control, in North Carolina, mistakenly euthanized a family's dogs and is now conducting an internal investigation to figure out what went wrong...

A Republican National Committee PowerPoint presentation that uses the infamous image of President Barack Obama as "the Joker" to make the case that there's a reason to fear his administration has been quickly repudiated by GOP Chairman Michael Steele...

Two 9-year-old twins in Britain are preparing to find out what high school they'll attend, making them the country's youngest high school students in history...

VIDEO - A college atheist group is offering students pornography in exchange for Bibles...

Students, professors, teachers and unions around the country will organize today to protest America's imperiled system of education with more than 100 events in 32 states...

SAN BERNARDO, Chile (AP) - The Desarmes family left their native Haiti two weeks after the earthquake, joining the eldest son in Chile for what seemed a refuge...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Tiger Woods' caddie said he knew nothing about the golfer's extramarital affairs and was angry with him over the scandal...

OPINION - 'The Gang of Four', consisted of David Dinkins, Charles Rangel, Basil Paterson and Percy Sutton. But that old gang is breaking up. Its power is largely gone...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Three Los Angeles elementary school teachers accused of giving children portraits of O.J. Simpson, Dennis Rodman and RuPaul...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton is convening a group of black Democratic leaders who could urge Gov. David Paterson to resign...

VIDEO - Should New York Governor David Paterson resign in light of mounting allegations of ethical misconduct? We hit the barbershops to find out...

NEW YORK (AP) - Singer Keyshia Cole and Daniel Gibson, a basketball player with the Cleveland Cavaliers, have announced the birth of their son...

OPINION - Obama has come closer than any president to passing comprehensive health care reform, yet he has much more work to do...

OPINION - The propensity of some students to slander, slur, mock and insult black and Latino students mirrors the hate acts that occur virtually daily in society...

Actor Jamie Foxx and recording artist Chris "Ludacris" Bridges today join the ranks of celebrities who have lent their popularity to push HIV prevention as part of a social media effort targeting young African Americans...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) - Research shows the first black people settled in South Carolina in the 1600s. They were slaves brought with white settlers....

The Tavis-Sharpton on air fight over whether or not President Obama was going to have a black agenda started out with a bang and ended with a whimper...

For more than a year, the popular chairman - a close ally of Speaker Nancy Pelosi - has dodged calls from Republicans and ethics watchdog groups for his resignation...

Despite paeans to diversity, the Republican Party clearly does not want a black man -- or any minority candidate -- in the Senate...

Lee Daniels has set his sights on a new family drama, this time for HBO with author Amy Bloom...

WASHINGTON (AP) - "I don't see how another year of negotiations would help. Moreover, the insurance companies aren't starting over," Obama said...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A firestorm over racially and ethnically charged incidents at several University of California campuses spread as a KKK-style hood was found on campus...

PORT-AU-PRINCE - During the Jan. 12 earthquake, there were few cries of ayibobo, the Voodoo calling of the gods. Instead, everyone yelled for Jesus...

ALBANY, New York (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson, trying to hold onto office in the face of one scandal, was accused Wednesday of violating state ethics laws...

Across the country, the anti-abortion movement, long viewed as almost exclusively white and Republican, is turning its attention to African-Americans and encouraging black abortion opponents across the country to become more active...

NEW YORK (AP) - A man hired to drive Naomi Campbell told police she assaulted him from the back seat of a luxury sport utility vehicle on Tuesday before hopping out and running away...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An attorney for Michael Jackson's mother confirms that child services workers are investigating the presence of a stun gun at the Jackson family home...

ALBANY, New York (AP) - New York Gov. David Paterson remains defiant in the midst of a rapidly growing scandal that has now claimed two top law enforcement officials...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel has decided to temporarily step down from his post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic leaders hope President Obama's unveiling of his final health care package Wednesday will help resuscitate an effort to enact his top domestic priority...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Putting a lone senator's cantankerous challenge behind it, the Senate is back to work on a $100 billion-plus bill reviving popular tax breaks and extending longer and more generous jobless benefits...

OPINION - At the heart of this debate is partisan politics, inept leadership and racial prejudice...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The D.C. Council voted to censure former mayor Marion Barry over a report accusing him of violating conflict-of-interest laws...

OPINION - Uganda's controversial anti-gay legislation illustrates tension between foreign donors' expectations and African cultural values...

NEW YORK (AP) - Campbell slapped and punched her driver in midtown Manhattan, then hopped out of the car and ran away, a law enforcement official said...

Since television's inception, African-Americans have been woefully underrepresented. But some shows have been able to break through and find a loyal black audience...

VIDEO - An elderly babysitter is being praised after she fought off an intruder who allegedly sexually assaulted a young girl as she slept in bed...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Allen Iverson's second stint with the Philadelphia 76ers ended on Tuesday when the team announced he would not return for the rest of the NBA season...

WASHINGTON (AP) - To the increasing discomfort of his fellow Republicans, Sen. Jim Bunning again blocked the Senate from extending unemployment benefits and health insurance subsidies for the jobless...

NEW YORK (AP) - Lil Wayne's already delayed jail term in a gun case abruptly got put off again because of a fire in the courthouse where he was due to be sentenced...

NEW YORK (AP) - ACORN employees videotaped by conservative activists did not commit a crime, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office said Monday...

From Essence Magazine - Every Black female can both protect herself from HIV and help to create an environment where other Black people can safeguard themselves...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Obama will incorporate Republican ideas on medical malpractice reform and trying to rid the health care system of waste and abuse...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court appeared willing Tuesday to say that the Constitution's right to possess guns limits state and local regulation of firearms...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Alcohol and marijuana use among teens is on the rise, ending a decade-long decline, according to Partnership for a Drug-Free America...

NEW YORK (March 1, 2010) - The American Lawyer's annual Diversity Scorecard, out today, reveals that the percentage of minority attorneys at the country's largest law firms dropped in 2009, the first such decrease in the ten years...

VIDEO - They don't look like regular quarters. The small discs actually look fake...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Tiger Woods is back at home after a week of family counseling in Arizona and is trying to get into a routine that includes golf and fitness...

NEW YORK (AP) - Rap star Lil Wayne has left fans and fellow artists with a video blitz as he braces for as much as a year behind bars at the height of his career...

SANTA MONICA, California (AP) - With O.J. Simpson giving his agreement from prison, a judge approved a plan Monday to donate the suit the former NFL star was wearing when he was acquitted of murder to the Smithsonian...

FROM THE FASHION JOURNAL In the midst of cries of donor fatigue, one New York City fashion designer continues the fight for earthquake victims. Priestess NYC's Cody Ross had been donating 15 percent of the seasons' sales to the Red Cross for the victims in Haiti and has continued his...

This week, the National Urban League celebrates its Centennial year with a call to action...

OPINION - You don't have to go to college to know that America's educational system is as embarrassing as our bloated, expensive health care system...

OPINION - Black leaders have at times lightly chided Obama to do and say more for African-Americans, but they're also realists...

The singer-actress delivered daughter Violet on Feb. 26, a friend confirms to PEOPLE, saying the baby has "a full head of hair."

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - A Paterson administration official speaking on the condition of anonymity confirmed that the two employees were directed by Paterson to contact the woman...

NEW YORK (AP) - Former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford Jr. said he won't challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this fall's Democratic primary because he doesn't want to divide and weaken the party...

NEW YORK - LMFAO couldn't let an opportunity like getting into an altercation with former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney pass without putting their unique twist on things...

WASHINGTON (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama says the people who prepare meals for schools have more influence over what kids eat than parents do.

VIDEO - Last Tuesday black talk-show host and commentator Tavis Smiley criticized Rev. Al Sharpton over a New York Times article in which Sharpton was quoted as saying...

VIDEO - A Cincinnati man was shot in the leg after he brought 1986 Camaro to Dayton to meet a potential buyer...

According to many different sources, Hip-Hop Wired has acquired information that rapper Guru has fallen into a coma after suffering cardiac arrest...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - University of Missouri police are investigating after someone scattered cotton balls outside the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center on the Columbia campus....

The moms of Lil Wayne, Ne-Yo and T Pain are set to be commemorated for their leadership and contributions to humanity...

From Ebony/Jet Magazine - For years, skiing has been largely considered a 'Whites only' sport, although 'black ski' clubs have been around for over 30 years...

Just two years ago, he was still invisible in the film world, struggling for any kind of break after 15 years in the industry...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House says 1.2 million students drop out of school each year, and only about 70 percent of entering high school freshmen go on to graduate...

VIDEO - Linda Greenway's son John is a sixth-grader. He started social networking at a very young age...

VIDEO - More than 300 people concerned about a possible move into Grant County by the Aryan Nations white supremacist group packed a Canyon City meeting hall...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The furloughs and freeze on payments were the result of a decision last week by Republican Sen. Jim Bunning to block passage of legislation...

Daley called Rogers a "great friend of mine," who did a "tremendous job" in a position she didn't have to take...

Will the Legislature allow him to govern for the next month, let alone the remaining 306 days of the unexpired term he assumed from Gov. Eliot Spitzer?

VIDEO - Reporters for WCNC in Charlotte, North Carolina looked through hundreds of video clips recorded onboard public buses in the last two years...

OPINION - By creating bills with manageable price tags, the president can deviate from the Congressional gridlock of 2009...

OPINION - Passing legislation has now become as difficult as a military operation - as President Obama will announce a "way forward" on health care reform later this week...

LEOGANE - For the last month or so, residents here have been busy finding relatives, burying the dead and settling in new lifestyle...

CHICAGO (AP) - Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan predicts trouble ahead for Obama and urged him to do more to improve the lives of blacks and the downtrodden...

VIDEO - This week, attention shifts to labor and the consumer credit markets, and continuing reports on manufacturing and service...