Black adults hear better than white adults, a government study found. The study also found that women hear better than men, and that overall, hearing in the United States is about the same as it was 35 years ago, despite the advent of ear-blasting devices such as the Walkman and the iPod.
Jack Black and his wife, Tanya Haden, are parents of a baby boy, the actor said.
The youngest daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told a teen audience Saturday that she intends to do more to carry on the legacy of nonviolence espoused by her parents.
Hamas officials call it "the backup force" and insist the rifle-toting militants are simply police reinforcements working to end rampant chaos in the Gaza Strip.
Hope springs eternal when black Republicans seek higher office, yet often the first question that hits them is what are they doing in the GOP. This election year, a man named Steele in Maryland and a former football star named Swann in Pennsylvania are among a small but determined number of black candidates trying to win one for the Republicans despite the Democratic Party's near lock on the black vote.
When Brian Copeland, at age 8, moved to San Leandro, Calif., in the early 1970s, the town, which borders Oakland, was 99.99 percent white.
Hollinger Inc., a Canadian holding company formerly controlled by ousted-newspaper magnate Conrad Black, has agreed to cooperate with the U.S. Attorney's Office in the criminal prosecution of Black and several others.
Jay Black, lead singer of the 1960s group Jay and the Americans, might have to relinquish his name — and the band's — to help pay off $500,000 in back taxes.
A group of black farmers rallied Wednesday outside the Agriculture Department to press their claim that thousands of people were left out of the settlement of a discrimination lawsuit.
One object in any NASCAR driver's rearview mirror that may have appeared closer than it actually was: Dale Earnhardt's black No. 3 Chevrolet.
Gov. Sonny Perdue signed legislation Tuesday granting compensation to black Georgia police officers who were barred under a Jim Crow-era law from taking part in a state pension fund.
The young black women can almost finish each other's stories.
Ray Heisser misses the surprise visits. The doorbell on Camberley Drive would chime and there'd be an old friend on Heisser's porch mopping the humidity off his forehead, stopping by for no good reason. "What y'all gettin' into? Come on, take a drive with me."
The number of black athletes getting diplomas across all NCAA Division I sports jumped 24 percentage points from 1984 to 2004, marking big gains for a demographic that once recorded just 35 percent graduation success, according to a study released Thursday.
There are far more ads for fast food and snacks on black-oriented TV than on channels with more general programming, researchers report in a provocative study that suggests a link to high obesity rates in black children.
Even though the economy has picked up, stubborn gaps between blacks and whites remain — a reality highlighted by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, the National Urban League reports in a new study.
Jack Black has tied the knot.
Bill Lester couldn't stand sitting behind a desk. He walked away from a six-figure job to pursue his dream of being a race car driver, not even thinking about the chance to leave his mark on history.
France's most popular television network has named a black journalist as a summer replacement for its star anchorman, a key change in the country's almost all-white TV news scene.
This village of palm-frond huts in Nigeria's southern Niger Delta sits atop one of Africa's richest energy deposits but has electricity only when one of its young men paddles a canoe to the nearest city to buy fuel for a generator.
Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays and NFL rushing king Emmitt Smith helped celebrate Black History Month in Florida on Tuesday, crediting their families with inspiring them to become exceptional athletes.
As the new director of the Idaho Black History Museum, Kimberly Moore's job starts with convincing people that such history actually exists.
When writer John Howard Griffin turned his skin from white to dark and traveled the South in 1959 for a firsthand look at the depths of racism, he relied on a simple medical treatment and his wits.
As a kindergartner in the 1940s, the first book Assemblyman William Payne recalls hearing was "The Story of Little Black Sambo." He never forgot the black stereotypes that filled the 19th century children's story.
Conservation groups and an animal welfare group are suing to get the Florida black bear added to the federal list of endangered or threatened species.