While it will be followed as a news event, network executives said the installation of the first black president will be as much a celebration as a story.

Many African-Americans will celebrate today by reflecting on the forth of seven Kwanzaa principles, UJAMAA.

Bruce Cox, a general contractor, used money from his own pocket to help many unemployed and unskilled residents find work.
 

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the country is not “race-blind” and “we shouldn’t deceive ourselves that we’re race-blind.”

1619: 20 Africans brought from the West Indies by a Dutch slave ship are traded for food in Jamestown — a year before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.
 

Items featuring President-elect Barack Obama populate a new exhibit at the Nyumba Ya Tausi Peacock Museum in Bristol, Va.

For the past five years, Linda Bedell moved her family celebration from the privacy of their homes to the Vivian Conley Branch of the Muncie Public Library, welcoming all members of the community to celebrate with them.

Close friends Geraldine Walker and Rosa Watson have celebrated Kwanzaa since the 1980’s.

Rihanna will join Enrique Iglesias, Fall Out Boy and Lifehouse for the National Football League’s Pepsi Smash Super Bowl Bash at Tampa, Florida’s Ford Amphitheatre.      

Many African-Americans will celebrate today by reflecting on the third of seven Kwanzaa principles, UJIMA.

Every year she and her son helped serve food to the homeless.  This year she invited them home for dinner and gifts.
 

In an age when the adult populations of most industrialized nations have grown significantly taller, the average height of black women in the United States has been receding, beginning with those born in the late 1960s.
 

Lorielle Broussard is featured on the cover of “Black Enterprise’s January edition.