Elwin Hope Wilson leans back in his recliner, a sad, sickly man haunted by time.
Connecticut legislators are considering making their state the first in New England to apologize for slavery and other racist policies of old.
Alex Rodriguez made a personal call to apologize to Texas Rangers owner Tom Hicks after the slugger's admission that he used banned substances while playing for the team from 2001-03.
Alex Rodriguez has called Sports Illustrated's Selena Roberts to apologize for critical comments he made during an ESPN interview.
Nearly a half century ago, amid suspicion and fears of McCarthyism, folk singer Pete Seeger faced an ultimatum from the San Diego school district: Sign an oath against communism or cancel a concert he planned at a high school auditorium.
British TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson said Friday he was sorry for calling Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot."
Elwin Wilson was an unabashed racist, the sort who once hung a black doll from a noose outside his home. John Lewis was a young civil rights leader bent on changing laws, if not hearts and minds, even if it cost him his life.
The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., was sending a personal letter to all the families who received the improperly addressed letters as the result of a printing error, the Army said.
Bob Jones University has apologized for racist policies including a one-time ban on interracial dating that wasn't lifted until nine years ago and its unwillingness to admit black students until 1971.
President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff apologized to the Arab-American community on Thursday for remarks his father made to an Israeli newspaper.
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Santonio Holmes apologized Monday for being involved in a marijuana-related case that caused coach Mike Tomlin to bench him for Sunday's loss to the New York Giants.
ESPN analyst Lou Holtz apologized on air Saturday for mentioning Adolf Hitler during a college football studio show the previous night.
Episcopal leaders gathered in Philadelphia expect to formally apologize Saturday for their ancestors' slave ownership — and to discuss the "white privilege" they say endures.
The owner of a plumbing supply store has apologized for asking customers who weren't speaking English for their Social Security numbers to prove they were legal residents.
A city council candidate in McCook, Neb., is apologizing for an automated phone call campaign — in advance.
A state lawmaker said he has apologized to his family for a "painful but private matter" in his marriage following the publication this week of steamy e-mails he reportedly exchanged with a woman who worked for the Legislature.
The state delivered a long-awaited apology to former leprosy patients forcibly confined to a remote peninsula on the island of Molokai.
Milwaukee first baseman Prince Fielder apologized Tuesday for pushing a teammate in the dugout during a loss, saying he should have done a better job of handling frustration due in part to the Brewers' losing streak.
The House on Tuesday issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors who suffered under slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws.
NASCAR apologized Tuesday for the tire fiasco that ruined its prestigious race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and vowed to avoid a repeat.
A judge has ordered a 19-year-old man to write an apology to a the city of Saratoga Springs in New York for dressing in an offensive costume at a high school graduation.
A janitor whom a university official had accused of racial harassment for reading a historical book about the Ku Klux Klan on his break has gotten an apology — months later — from the school.
Manny Ramirez said he patched things up with a Boston Red Sox employee he reportedly shoved to the ground during an argument, and the club said the matter is over.
Justin Gimelstob's disparaging comments about Anna Kournikova have created a stir at Wimbledon, where World Team Tennis teammate Serena Williams denounced the remarks as unprofessional.
NBC Sports golf analyst Johnny Miller apologized for his description of U.S. Open runner-up Rocco Mediate, saying the comments had "absolutely nothing to do with his ethnicity."
— 2008: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a public apology in Parliament for a decades-long government policy requiring Canadian Indians to attend state-funded schools aimed at stripping them of their culture.
Charles Krauthammer said it best and covered the bottom line on Fox News recently when he stated: "He steps all over America and gets nothing for it."
Watching Barack Obama this past week was painful. The new president went out of his way to apologize for America's flaws. His groveling won rave reviews from some foreigners, the American mainstream media, and others who hold the United States in contempt.
A repentant robber who held up a suburban store returned a day later to apologize to the woman he robbed. And a surveillance camera was rolling as it all played out.
President Obama's trip to Europe has been seen by many conservatives as America appearing weak to the world and not forceful enough. Which by my barometer is probably the best definition of success he could have had.
After mocking the Canadian military and causing an uproar, Fox talker Greg Gutfeld issued an apology, but then ridiculed the Canadian military again on his Twitter page on the same day: "My apologies to the Canadian military, they probably could at least beat the Belgians."
No more cushy penthouse for the biggest swindler of all time. Bernard Madoff pled guilty and expressed contrition for his Ponzi scheme, but the judge deemed him a flight risk and sent him to jail.
As I sit here wafting through the bottomless pit of news articles on Obama, I am still awe struck to find how many people care about useless tidbits of information on the Obama's. I heard of Obama's great sense of gift giving to Great Britain the other day on the news...
Yesterday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Rush Limbaugh the "intellectual force" of the GOP. "And whenever a Republican criticize him, they have to run back and apologize to him, and say they were misunderstood," he observed.
The national civil rights organization ColorOfChange.org said today that it had coordinated with NYPD to conduct a public confrontation outside Rupert Murdoch's residence over his lack of action regarding The New York Post's controversial 'chimp' cartoon.
U.S. Senator Jim Bunning apologized for his comment that Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg would likely die this year from pancreatic cancer.
A day after publishing a cartoon that drew fire from critics who said it evoked historically racist images, the New York Post apologized in a statement on its Web site -- even as it defended its action and blasted some detractors.
Alex Rodriguez needs to fire his publicist if he has one, or get one if he does not; his disingenuous, embarrassing news conferences and apologies don't cut it.
So now it's racist to congratulate colored people for the 100 year anniversary of the National Association of COLORED PEOPLE.... total WTF moment.
Dear Sir,
An emotional reunion A former white supremacist seeks out a civil rights leader he attacked 48 years ago. » What prompted apology
On 9/11, President Bush learned of disaster while reading "The Pet Goat" to grade-school kids. On Tuesday, President Obama escaped from disaster by reading "The Moon Over Star" to grade-school kids.
No doubt properly coached by his handlers, Phelps is being dutifully contrite as if his actions actually harmed anyone (besides the poor guy whose stash was at the mercy of the most powerful lungs in sports).
We Owe Him an Apology and We owe each other an apology for the dissent we have allowed to rule the nation this election
- A 10-year-old girl who last week told deputies she had been kidnapped by a stranger made the story up, officials said Monday. King County sheriff spokesman John Urquhart said the girl confessed to her parents Saturday evening and told them kidnapping did not happen.
This will be something of a strange apology from me, since in my past; I have been the most pro American of all. I did have the opportunity to live and work in Russia, in the city of Saint Petersburg for 6 years.
Georgia's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People plans to push again for the state Legislature to issue an apology for slavery.
W. comes clean - on his dad, Condi's farts and the time Dick waterboarded the house boy
A CBS 46 News photographer and reporter were arrested Friday afternoon at Atlanta City Hall while doing a story. Photographer Jeff Thorn and reporter Renee Starzyk were handcuffed in the city hall lobby, public property, while doing an ongoing story on water rates.
The U.S. Army is apologizing to thousands of Army families who received letters beginning "Dear John Doe" after losing a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan.