CNN suspended political analyst Roland Martin on Wednesday for “offensive” tweets during the Super Bowl that some critics said were anti-gay.
Martin commented on Twitter about a commercial during the Super Bowl that showed soccer star David Beckham in underwear: “If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, [...]
The United States Golf Association is honoring the accomplishments in the game of golf of three transcendent African-American athletes – Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and Althea Gibson – with a special exhibit at the USGA Museum.
Opening Feb. 17, 2012, and running through the end of July, “American Champions and Barrier Breakers” celebrates the lives, athletic [...]
A U.N. official expressed support Wednesday for Haitian victims of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier’s regime who plan to appeal a judge’s recommendation that calls for trying the ex-leader only for alleged financial crimes and not human rights abuses.
The appeals process began this week after Haiti’s attorney general received the finding of an investigative magistrate recommending [...]
“Take the kinks out of your mind,” intoned Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), “instead of out of your hair.”
As founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Mr. Garvey refused advertisements for products to lighten the skin and straighten the hair of African Americans in The Negro World, the UNIA’s newspaper. [...]
Athletic tensions between two Pittsburgh-area high schools — one largely white, the other predominantly black — have boiled over into accusations of racism that some say is being swept under the rug.
Two students at Brentwood High School are accused of dressing in banana suits at a game and, along with other students, taunting players at [...]
