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 [...]
The three men received short jail terms after previously pleading guilty to intentionally attempting to intimidate African-American students at Beekman Junior High School in Morehouse Parish.
Yesteday, the three appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen Hayes in Monroe, Louisiana, after having pled guilty to the charges last summer. James Lee Wallis, 25, received a sentence of [...]
Descendants of Harriet Tubman have gathered at The President’s Gallery by Madame Tussauds and unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom.
Tubman’s great-great-great-grand-nephew, Charles E.T. Ross, and Tubman’s great-great-grand-niece, Valery Ross Manokey, were present at the Washington wax museum Tuesday to see the statue join a collection of historical [...]
More than 60 people converged in a reconstructed, one-room schoolhouse in Berkeley County on Saturday to strategize and network on developing the African-American tourism niche in the Lowcountry.
The first-ever “Raising the Curtain: African-American Niche of the Tourism Industry” conference was hosted by Wando Huger Community Development Corp. and featured sessions on developing business, public grants [...]
As it prepares to make Chicago its North American headquarters, the German-based ThyssenKrupp manufacturing company is facing allegations that company supervisors in the city created a hostile and intimidating work environment for an African-American employee.
A superintendent at ThyssenKrupp used the N-word “routinely” around African-American sales representative Montrelle Reese, according to a November finding by the [...]
