(USA Today) – Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings apologized for vulgar comments he made in an intense exchange with guard Wade Baldwin following the Commodores’ 73-65 victory...
According to reports, the number of black men currently in jail, on parole or on probation is more than three times the number of black men...
ANTHONY McCARTNEY, AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The theft of a $150,000 pearl-covered gown worn by Lupita Nyong’o at the Oscars doesn’t surprise Hollywood...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker will be playing themselves on TV this summer. The Fox Television Stations group said Thursday the...
BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The new mayor of the nation’s capital gave her constituents what they wanted — the ability to legally grow...
Washington (CNN) – Is the Democratic party over for Israel? For years, support for Israel has been one of the few reliably bipartisan issues on Capitol...
STACY A. ANDERSON, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday celebrated what he called “the central role that African-Americans have played in every...
NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS, Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An independent autopsy of an unarmed Mexican man killed by police in Washington state shows he was...
(USA Today) – Journalism lost a courageous soldier this week. Dori J. Maynard, 56, who died Tuesday of lung cancer, didn’t report in combat zones. She had...
The Associated Press Earl Lloyd, the first black player in NBA history, died Thursday. He was 86. Lloyd’s alma mater, West Virginia State, confirmed the death....
(Bloomberg) — Sterling Risk Advisors, an Atlanta-based property and casualty insurance broker with 86 employees, has added 13 workers since June and will probably hire...
(CBS News) – Attorney General Eric Holder says that he will soon call on Congress to lower the standard of proof in federal civil rights cases,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to award the Congressional Gold Medal to honor those who participated in the historic Selma civil rights protest...
BILL SIZEMORE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Lewis Reynolds didn’t understand what had been done to him when he was 13. Years later, after getting...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Loretta Lynch won approval from a key Senate committee Thursday to serve as the nation’s next attorney general, as...
DENISE LAVOIE, AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect asked a judge Thursday to dismiss the indictment against their...
MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Have you heard the one about the Sikh, the Hasidic Jew, the Muslim and the nun who walked into...
LUCAS L. JOHNSON II, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization on Wednesday urged Tennessee Republican leaders to...
(Politico) – FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has made some last-minute revisions to his net neutrality plan after Google and public interest groups pressed for the...
(The Blaze) – The signs that someone might be contemplating suicide are often missed until it’s too late. Among younger crowds, evidence that a person...
EMERY P. DALESIO, AP Business Writer RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — People in small communities may get better, cheaper access to the Internet after the Federal Communications...
CANDICE CHOI, AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) — What if cauliflower got the same type of marketing firepower as candy bars and potato chips?...
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In the ever-complicated debate over labeling of genetically modified foods, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offers this idea: Use...
TOM McELROY, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who contracted the deadly Ebola virus and rode the subway system and dined out before he...
