A few clicks on the Web site of Black Entertainment Television leads viewers to a short Nascar tutorial filled with information about popular drivers, racetracks and salaries.
It may seem odd to find a sport so closely tied to white Southern men featured on a Web site devoted to African-American entertainment, but it represents Nascar’s latest [...]

The Princeton Review recently published its annual 373 Best Colleges guide. Among the 373 colleges chosen as America’s best are six historically black colleges and universities. They are Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, Spelman College, Tuskegee University, and Xavier University of Louisiana.
Each year the Princeton Review surveys students at the colleges it features and [...]

Discussions of race in modern America often focus on gaps between blacks and whites — the income gap, the education gap, the marriage gap, the incarceration gap. Recent polling suggests the emergence of a new gap: an optimism gap. One group is decidedly more upbeat about both the current state of the U.S. economy and [...]

We all have something to be sorry about. Why? Because we’re all human and we make mistakes. Furthermore, we often don’t know when we’ve offended somebody. Words come pouring from our mouths before we realize that they have an effect. Or a careless action affected someone close to you.
Listen – it happens. But the beauty [...]

Once a civil service worker, Gwendolyn Crews never imagined entering the field of education.
But after her college sweetheart, with whom she had a child, was killed in an automobile accident, the Los Angeles native was forced to raise her toddler as single parent. It was then that Crews began working one-on-one with her daughter to [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa — Drake University plans to face an all-star team from Mexico in Tanzania next year in what the school says will be the first American football game ever played in Africa.
The school announced Wednesday that the Bulldogs, who compete in the Football Championship Subdivision, will play on May 21 in Moshi, Tanzania, [...]

A double threat. A troublemaker. A black female. Dr. Lynette Danley proudly and unapologetically claims all three and encourages her sisters of color to do the same. Growing up in a middle-class family in the Austin neighborhood, she attended Howe Elementary and Currie High school. Her neighborhood was surrounded by drugs, prostitutes and gangs. While [...]

Molina Soleil and Aju released their first full-length album earlier this year. Produced in collaboration with Oakland-based DJ Icewater, the self-titled, 15-track collection bursts with head-bobbing beats, rhymes that flow like melted butter and melodic hooks that stick like maple syrup.
Its soulful jams and socially conscious lyrics recall Marvin Gaye and Gil Scott-Heron as much [...]

It started with a favor from a distinguished former Kansas governor.
In 1950, Alf Landon gave a malfunctioning radio transmitter to Andrew “Skip” Carter, who was in pursuit of his dream to start a radio station. Carter drove to Leavenworth, retrieved the transmitter and hauled it back to Kansas City on a flatbed truck.
Carter repaired that [...]

PITTSFORD, N.Y. — On a cool August afternoon, George Wilson took the time to walk the talk.
This wasn’t about his exulted status as an NFL player, his role as a captain for the Buffalo Bills, or an appearance in a Mary J. Blige music video earlier this year.
No, his chat with a group of boys [...]