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Houston hosts MLB diversity business summit

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:26:16 -0400

HOUSTON - Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig touted the progress the league has made in racial hiring practices while stressing his desire to increase the number of black players in the sport.

Deen says she used slur but doesn't tolerate hate

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:29:32 -0400

SAVANNAH, Georgia - Celebrity cook Paula Deen said while being questioned in a discrimination lawsuit that she has used racial slurs in the past but insisted she and her family do not tolerate prejudice.

Zimmerman jurors asked about neighborhood watch

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:08:15 -0400

SANFORD, Florida - Attorneys quizzed a whittled-down group of prospective jurors Wednesday in the Trayvon Martin case about whether they had fired guns, made judgments based on how people dressed or had been neighborhood watch volunteers like the teen's shooter.

Conn. judge suspended 30 days for late decisions

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:04:24 -0400

HARTFORD, Connecticut - A state judge was suspended without pay for 30 business days after admitting Wednesday that she was late in issuing child welfare rulings, some of which were more than nine months overdue and delayed placement and adoption proceedings.

Italy's first back minister receives death threats

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:07:39 -0400

ROME - Italy's first black Cabinet minister is facing Internet death threats before a visit to a region known for its anti-immigrant political base.

Early black church in Maine named as endangered

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:23:42 -0400

PORTLAND, Maine - The Abyssinian Meeting House is the nation's third-oldest standing African-American meeting house, used for religious, social, educational and cultural events until its closing in 1917.

Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj to perform at BET Awards

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:22:57 -0400

NEW YORK - Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj will take the stage at the BET Awards.

Bill would honor Buffalo Soldiers' role in parks

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:01:10 -0400

SACRAMENTO, California - In the decades after the Civil War, the nation's first black Army regiments guarded Yosemite and Sequoia national parks against poaching and timber thefts, a role that in hindsight made them some of the United States' first park rangers.

NC NAACP protest ends with more than 80 arrests

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:07:09 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - A protest spearheaded by the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP led to the arrests of 84 people Monday at the state legislature in the seventh installment of the civil rights group's near-weekly demonstrations.

NY graduation rates stable; Buffalo erases gains

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:52:54 -0400

BUFFALO, New York - New York state's high school graduation rate held steady at 74 percent for the first class of students required to meet stricter graduation requirements, proving, education officials said Monday, that raising the bar was the right move.

6 urban districts recognized for AP performance

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:53:58 -0400

ATLANTA - The 50 students haven't even started ninth grade yet, but they're gathered this summer at a high school for a special program on statistics, language and social awareness taught by teachers who specialize in Advanced Placement classes.

High court to hear NJ housing discrimination case

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:10:14 -0400

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take on another dispute involving race, deciding whether people must prove they were victims of intentional housing discrimination to win lawsuits under federal law.

Mandela's wife thanks world for 'love, generosity'

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:34:38 -0400

JOHANNESBURG - In tweets, songs, telephone calls, cards and more, messages of love have come from across South Africa and the world for 94-year-old Nelson Mandela, giving the family comfort and hope as he remains hospitalized in serious condition with a lung infection, his wife said Monday.

Affirmative action ruling contest: race vs. class

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:35:43 -0400

In post-Great Recession America, which is the bigger barrier to opportunity - race or class?

1st black woman sworn in as Tuscaloosa postmaster

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:04:13 -0400

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama - Sherrill Palmer, a 16-year veteran of the U.S. Postal Service, has been sworn in as the first black woman to serve as postmaster of Tuscaloosa.

Arizona civil rights activists seek Flake meeting

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:41:40 -0400

PHOENIX - Arizona civil rights activists say they want a face-to-face meeting with U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake to discuss his teenage son's derogatory tweets.

Coal mine discrimination suit close to resolution

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 16:20:48 -0400

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky - A lawsuit against a western Kentucky coal mine accused of discriminating against black job applicants appears to be nearing a settlement.

USC marks renewed Booker T. Washington high school

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:53:03 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - The University of South Carolina is marking the renovation of Booker T. Washington High School, once the largest public high school for blacks in the state.

Economic equality evasive, Jackson says in Miss.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:37:01 -0400

JACKSON, Mississippi - Racial barriers have been broken during the half century since Mississippi civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated but economic disparities remain, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said Thursday at an Evers memorial event in Lorman, Mississippi

Senate Democrats discuss need for 'black agenda'

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:18:09 -0400

WASHINGTON - The sole Democratic African-American senator cast doubt on the need for a "black agenda" from the president and on its chances of passage in Congress during a Democratic forum with largely African-American reporters Wednesday.

DC circuit reviewing judge's alleged misconduct

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:50:53 -0400

WASHINGTON - A council of federal judges in Washington will look into a misconduct complaint against a conservative judge who is alleged to have made racially discriminatory comments.

Meridian schools working on discipline issues

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 04:04:38 -0400

MERIDIAN, Mississippi - The Meridian School Board is rewriting the school's system discipline policies to end what the Justice Department called discriminatory disciplinary practices in which black students face harsher punishment than whites for similar misbehavior.

NC protests split on Bible's message to help poor

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:15:26 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - Over the last two months, hundreds of protesters have walked out of North Carolina's capitol in handcuffs to show their opposition to policies by the GOP-controlled Legislature.

8 more arrested in NC General Assembly building

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:01:53 -0400

RALEIGH, North Carolina - More protesters have been arrested at the North Carolina legislature while demonstrating against Republican policies and remembering past leaders of the civil rights movement.

NAACP reviewing death, Meriden police Taser use

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:24:14 -0400

MERIDEN, Connecticut - Connecticut NAACP officials say they're investigating Meriden police's use of a stun gun on an injured man who later died.