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NAACP backs same-sex marriage as civil right
MIAMI -- The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law."
Date: 05/19/2012 | Nation & World
Census: Minorities surpass whites in U.S. births
WASHINGTON — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.
Date: 05/16/2012 | Nation & World
Analysis: President takes big risk in election year
President Barack Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is an election-year boost to his liberal base that comes with some risks.
Date: 05/09/2012 | Nation & World
20 years after L.A. riots, some tensions ease
Henry Keith Watson remembers April 29, 1992, as if it happened just last week. History won't allow him to forget it.
Date: 04/29/2012 | Nation & World
Texas A&M Cadets get 1st black commander
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Nearly a half-century after African-Americans were admitted to predominantly white Texas A&M University, a black student has reached the pinnacle of one of its signature organizations.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Nation & World
Prosecutors: Trayvon killer ignored warning to back off (video)
SANFORD, Fla. — After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman made his first courtroom appearance Thursday in the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, and prosecutors outlined their murder case in court papers, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer followed and confronted the black teenager...
Date: 04/11/2012 | Nation & World
2 suspects arrested in Tulsa shooting spree
TULSA, Okla. — Acting on a tip and shadowed by a helicopter, police arrested two men early Sunday in the recent shootings that terrorized Tulsa's black community and left three people dead and two others critically wounded.
Date: 04/07/2012 | Nation & World
Video raises doubts about Trayvon gunman's story (video)
MIAMI — Newly released police video of a handcuffed George Zimmerman may be important for what it doesn't show: No obvious cuts, scrapes, blood or bandages. No clearly broken nose. No plainly visible evidence of a life-and-death struggle with Trayvon Martin.
Date: 03/30/2012 | Nation & World
Video raises doubts about Trayvon gunman's story (video)
MIAMI — Newly released police video of a handcuffed George Zimmerman may be important for what it doesn't show: No obvious cuts, scrapes, blood or bandages. No clearly broken nose. No plainly visible evidence of a life-and-death struggle with Trayvon Martin.
Date: 03/28/2012 | Nation & World
Lawmaker dons a hoodie in U.S. House (video)
WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bobby Rush donned a hoodie during a speech on the House floor Wednesday deploring the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, receiving a reprimand for violating rules on wearing hats in the House chamber.
Date: 03/28/2012 | Nation & World
Interracial marriages hit a new high in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- Interracial marriages in the U.S. have climbed to 4.8 million -- a record 1 in 12 -- as a steady flow of new Asian and Hispanic immigrants expands the pool of prospective spouses. Blacks are now substantially more likely than before to marry whites.
Date: 02/16/2012 | Nation & World
Republican campaign rhetoric raises racial concerns (Video)
WASHINGTON — Hoping to win the hearts of Southern conservatives, Newt Gingrich leaned into his argument that President Barack Obama is a "food stamp president" and that poor people should want paychecks, not handouts — a pitch that earned him a standing ovation in South Carolina during...
Date: 01/18/2012 | Nation & World
Bank of America to pay $335 million in fair-lending case
WASHINGTON -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and federal officials on Wednesday announced a $335 million national settlement with Bank of America Corp. stemming from former mortgage giant Countrywide allegedly steering minority borrowers into subprime loans and charging them higher interest...
Date: 12/22/2011 | Business
Kentucky church to revisit its ban on interracial couples
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- When Stella Harville brought her black boyfriend to her family's all-white church in rural Kentucky, she thought nothing of it. She and Ticha Chikuni worshipped there whenever they were in town, and he even sang before the congregation during one service.
Date: 12/03/2011 | Nation & World
Black student sparks debate with his Confederate flag
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A black college student who drew complaints for displaying a Confederate flag in his dorm room window said he sees the banner as a symbol of Southern pride and not racism.
Date: 12/01/2011 | Nation & World
Poorest poor in U.S. hits new record: 1 in 15 people
WASHINGTON — The ranks of America's poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.
Date: 11/03/2011 | Nation & World
President Obama: Martin Luther King 'stirred our conscience'
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama saluted Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday as a man who "stirred our conscience" and made the Union "more perfect," rejoicing in the dedication of a monument memorializing the slain civil rights leader's life and work.
Date: 10/16/2011 | Nation & World
Civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth dies
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, who was bombed, beaten and repeatedly arrested in the fight for civil rights and hailed by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for his courage and energy, has died. He was 89.
Date: 10/05/2011 | Nation & World
’Mother of hip-hop’ Sylvia Robinson dies at 76
HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Sylvia Robinson, a music executive who lit the fuse that ignited the popularity of hip-hop, died Thursday morning at Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J. She was 76.The cause was congestive heart failure, said her publicist, Greg Walker.
Date: 09/30/2011 | Nation & World
Obama tells blacks to 'stop complainin' and fight
WASHINGTON -- In a fiery summons to an important voting block, President Barack Obama told blacks on Saturday to quit crying and complaining and "put on your marching shoes" to follow him into battle for jobs and opportunity.
Date: 09/25/2011 | Nation & World
Cherokees expel descendants of slaves from tribe
TULSA, Okla. — One of the nation's largest American Indian tribes has sent letters to about 2,800 descendants of slaves once owned by its members, revoking their citizenship and cutting their medical care, food stipends, low-income homeowners' assistance and other services.
Date: 09/09/2011 | Nation & World
Congressman apologizes to black constituents over 'tar baby' reference
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Leaders in the local black community accepted an apology from U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn on Friday, two weeks after demanding his resignation for his use of the term "tar baby" in referring to President Barack Obama.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Nation & World
Federal agencies to review diversity strategy
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed an executive order Thursday directing federal officials to design a government-wide strategy for making the federal workforce more diverse.
Date: 08/19/2011 | Nation & World
Chicago settles firefighter discrimination case
CHICAGO -- It will cost the city of Chicago at least $45 million to compensate thousands of African-Americans who lost a shot at becoming a Chicago firefighter because of a discriminatory test, under a federal court order entered Wednesday that brings an end to 13 years of litigation.
Date: 08/18/2011 | Nation & World
Minority babies now the majority in U.S.
WASHINGTON -- For the first time, more than half of the children under age 2 in the U.S. are minorities, part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and fast-growing younger ethnic populations that could reshape government policies.
Date: 06/23/2011 | Nation & World
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