Knock knock. "Ma'am?" he petitioned sharply, in his croaky Mississippi drawl. The woman, an African American, declined to acknowledge him. "Ma'am?" Still nothing. So McMillan, 69 and white, yelled the words he has yelled at thousands of women ...
the nation's first African American syndicated cartoonist. The Glyph Awards will honor artistic works from the preceding year that are the best in comics and science fiction made by, for, and about African Americans. The fun continues 10 a.m. to ...
VAN SUSTEREN: How about the African-American vote, which is typically is a vote ... When I was still a candidate, I believed that I had gotten the attention of a lot of African-Americans and a lot of black voters. And it was because of my ...
The United States has reached a historic tipping point, with children born to Latino, Asian, African American and mixed-race parents ... increasing 3% to 18.2 million. African Americans increased 1.6% to 43.9 million.
After the Chronicle of Higher Education published an item highlighting the dissertations of five young PhD candidates in African-American studies at Northwestern University, Chronicle blogger Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote that the mere titles of ...
"So disturbed by this episode. #Sad," she wrote. BBW has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks for portraying African-American women in a negative light, with their endless fights and arguing. After receiving backlash for her actions during the ...
The election of the first black president was a profoundly meaningful moment for African Americans and an aspirational vote for others. To remind those voters of the history they made — particularly through crude attempts at using Obama’s race against ...
But in the end, the rights of gay Americans, as those of African Americans, cannot be left to majority whim. Ruth Marcus is a syndicated columnist with the Washington Post Writers Group. Readers may email her at marcusr@ washpost.com.
HOUSTON -- The day after an all-white jury acquitted a former Houston police officer for his role in the beating of a 15-year-old African American burglary suspect, community activists rallied a crowd of at least 200 people on the courthouse ...
In a 2003 sermon, Wright said black people should condemn the United States. "The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the ...
