Magnolia (Maggie) Knox loves her older sister, Allean Robertson, with all of her heart — and now with a kidney.
 

After 50 years of waiting, last Sunday the State of North Carolina finally officially recognized a major civil rights event and put up a historical marker at the site of the 1957 Royal Ice Cream sit-in in Durham, NC.
 

Porter, the first African-American UofM football head coach, received a five-year contract worth $750,000 annually. This will be the first head coaching job for Porter.
 

First African-American Ice Dancing Team to Medal at US Figure Skating Sectional Championships in the Novice Division; Kassy Kova and Justin Ross, Novice Ice Dancers, Strive to Open Doors
 

Early, on the morning of Saturday November 21, 2009, over 600 volunteers converged on Bell Multicultural High School in DC with the mission of touching the community in a special way.

A group is developing a plan to turn a tiny sliver of town-owned land into a living history museum to commemorate Mitchelville, the first freedmen’s village in the United States.
 

NFL star Nnamdi Asomugha decides to help homeless teen Kenneth Chancey, 17, lived in homeless shelter, yet made all A’s and is class president.
 

Shirley Ann Jackson, the president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was the highest-paid university president during the 2007-08 academic year.

The 10-event tour was created to get African-American youth interested in baseball.

The Institute for Health, Social, and Community Research at Shaw Univ. has been awarded a 5-year research grant for $4,116,437 from the NIH, National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Divorce, death or mutual separation can be difficult, but during the holiday season, when you’re supposed to be happy and surrounded by family, times can just be plain tough.

Cheryle R. Jackson focusing on job creation, small business success.

Authorities believe the child, Shaniya Davis, was kidnapped, raped and murdered after being reported missing November 10.