“Black Like Me” is a non-fiction book by white journalist John Howard Griffin first published in 1961. The title of the book is taken from the last line of the Langston Hughes poem “Dream Variations.” The book describes Griffin’s six-week experience traveling on Greyhound buses throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The often-brash governor of Maine, Paul LePage,  used crude language Thursday to express his frustration over the state budget, targeting a Democratic opponent with a sexually vulgar phrase to describe how he believes he is taking advantage of the people. Gov. Paul LePage made the remark about Sen. Troy Jackson to […]

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois Republican official resigned from his leadership post Thursday amid outrage over an email in which he berated a biracial former Miss America as a “street walker” who could fill a law firm’s “minority quota” if she loses her bid for Congress. The controversy, involving a county GOP leader in […]

Pastors across the country are having a serious problem leading their flocks with all of the temptations that stem from  the power they wield over their congregations. Pastor Ira V. Hilliard of New Light Church in Houston, Texas, is using his powerful pulpit to ask some of his congregation via e-mail for donations to fix […]

MIAMI (AP) — New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is being sued in South Florida by a man claiming Hernandez shot him in the face after an argument at a strip club. The lawsuit filed late Wednesday by Alexander Bradley comes as police in New England investigate Hernandez’s possible connection to the death of […]

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — The leg irons that restrained abolitionist John Brown after his failed 1859 raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry are being sold Saturday in Texas, but two historical parks dedicated to his legacy can’t afford to bid on them. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions estimates the shackles are worth at least $10,000, […]

CINCINNATI (AP) — A man paralyzed and hooked up to a ventilator after he was shot in the face and neck could only communicate by blinking his eyes, but those blinks helped lead to what could end up as life in prison for Ricardo Woods, the man convicted of murdering him. Ricardo Woods, 35, was […]

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Before Marvin Sapp became a Gospel superstar, he was a member of the group Commissioned alongside Fred Hammond. Even though both have flourishing solo careers,…

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A jury of six women, five of them white and the other a minority, was picked Thursday to decide the second-degree murder trial of George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who says he shot an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, in self-defense. Prosecutors have said Zimmerman, 29, racially profiled the 17-year-old […]