The head of Georgia's NAACP wants to know why two white women in the so-called "Barbie bandits" case got less prison time than two black ...

Religious, minority and civil rights activists are asking Homeland Security officials to screen their own airport screeners using video cameras to ...

A team of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and the Israeli Institute of Technology (Technion) in Haifa has developed a technique ...

The line to the collection plates was familiar for Fisk University President Hazel O'Leary, who has seen local churches donate to her school for ...

Cleveland Clinic, United Pastors in Mission and 100 Black Men of Greater Cleveland announced the first-ever "Walk to Better Health" this week.. ...

Maryann Reid's "dream board" is propped on a plastic lawn chair in her living room in Brooklyn. Magazine clippings cover the entire poster board: a ...

The Charleston NAACP demanded today that school board Vice Chairwoman Nancy Cook apologize for suggesting that unfit parents should be sterilized ...

A freshly painted lime green 1995 Oldsmobile Delta 88 with 24-inch rims was carjacked at gunpoint Monday afternoon by a man who apparently followed ...

Military strategy. . In "Real roles, missions debate" (Commentary, yesterday), Andrew Hoehn and David Ochmanek lay out their case for a greater ...

Between 1990 and 2004, five- and 10-year survival rates for non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients in the United States improved, a new study finds.. ...

For the seventh year in a row, rates of syphilis infection have increased in the United States, driven largely by cases among gay and bisexual men ...

The head of Georgia's NAACP wants to know why two white women in the so-called "Barbie bandits" case got less prison time than two black ...

A new and informative website for girls and teens of color, www.urbangirlz.org, highlights an alarming trend revealing African American teens suffering from eating disorders most often linked to Caucasian women. Studies sited by the Office of Women's Health indicate Black girls and teens are not only binging and purging but admit to fasting and using laxatives regularly to lose weight. Researchers accredit changes in eating behavior among African American teens to body dissatisfaction.

There's often something missing when a road race is held in almost any location in Western New York, or for that matter in many places around the ...

America has come to a crossroads. You must understand that power is linked, in world politics, to oil. And as the greatest industrial nation on the Earth, America has an insatiable appetite for oil. When coal was the number one energy in the world, Great Britain ruled the world. She had the greatest deposits of coal. But when the power to move engines moved from coal to oil, England and America began vying for control of the places on this Earth that produce oil.