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Ruby Bridges Hall (born Ruby Nell Bridges September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi) moved with her parents to New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 4. In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents

WASHINGTON--Three US warships dispatched to Egypt signal that Washington is stepping up efforts to secure the embattled regime of Hosni Mubarak. As millions of Egyptian people persist in nationwide

THE INFLUENCE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE The Greater Chesapeake area embracing Virginia, Maryland, and much of North Carolina was the earliest and perhaps most influential lo

Live action bumpers featuring Bill Cosby were set around animated episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, a series about a group of urban adolescents growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MARCHING BANDS The earliest marching bands in America were most likely the fifers, drummers, trumpeters, and pipers of Colonial-era militias. Like their Euro

We all know Mike Tyson can sing a mean cover of Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," but did you know that he also writes poetry? No kidding. Some of Tyson's poetry will appear in the April issue o

Anderson Cooper has decided to leave Egypt. NBC and CBS anchors Brian Williams and Katie Couric left the country on Thursday, and it appears as if Saturday Cooper had opted to follow suit. Accordin

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New York, February 4, 2011--Journalists in Cairo faced assaults, detentions, and threats again today as supporters of President Hosni Mubarak continued their efforts to obstruct news coverage of prote

Newsweek.com--Police in the US now rival criminals, and exceed terrorists, as the greatest threat to the American public. Rogelio Serrato is the latest case to be in the news of an innocent person mu

BALTIMORE--A Laurel minister whose two young daughters were placed on the wrong bus Thursday and left unaccompanied at a stop says their elementary school called the police on him after he went to the

Barbara Hillary is the first African American woman to reach the North Pole on April 23, 2007--hold on to your chairs ladies and gents--at the impressive age of 75! Barbara Hillary is a retire

Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960) Novelist, anthropologist, folklorist Flamboyant, bold and outrageous were Zora Neale Hurston’s writings, as was her life. As the diva of the Harlem Renaissance, Hu

Newsweek.com--Here is a tyrant of Egypt who ruled over Egypt all my life time. One whose face and stature is virtually inseparable to the image of his country; with his whitewashed marble offices and

MINNESOTA--A Duluth man who police believe shot himself with a long gun falsely reported to a 911 operator that a black male was among the people he claimed shot him. That information was contained

AN ETHIOPIAN woman who branded black women 'the most desperate women on the planet' has had to issue an apology after receiving a number of threats following her offensive Youtube video The

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress later called “the first lady of civil rights”, and “the mother of

By Holly Yettick February 1, 2011 An offhand comment by an education professor at a diverse, urban university got me thinking about minority teacher recruitment. As he strolled past the department

From The Huffington Post February 2, 2011 The photos of Mubarak's thugs riding in on camels to attack the peaceful protesters with whips is getting worldwide attention. As CNN notes: "All at on

NEW YORK--The residents board of the famous Dakota building in New York are racist and are unfairly discriminating against tenants they disapprove of, according to a lawsuit. According to the laws