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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent a letter to British Petroleum chief executive Tony Heywood seeking...

The number of businesses owned by Black Americans soared by 60.5 percent to 1.9 million between 2002 and 2007 and...

A child obesity epidemic fed by fast food, sugary drinks and too much television threatens to create the first generation...

e-learning is on the rise, with more and more students signing up to study with online universities. While users must...

The head of the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights organization, fearing a loss of momentum since the 2008 election,...

A piece of advice last fall from the nation’s No. 1 political whisperer to a struggling fellow Democrat may have...

Just about everyone likes Charlie Rangel. Republicans pump his hand, Democrats put their arms around his shoulders and women of...

It’s a flirtatious courtship, media frenzy and global event rolled into a package unprecedented in sports history. The recruitment of...

Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the police sergeant who arrested him last July after a confrontation outside his...