Unlike Americans of European descent, most black Americans trace their ancestry to areas of Africa that, centuries ago, were not primarily part of Christian world. ..…

While most Africans brought to New World to be slaves were not Christians when they arrived, many of them and their descendants embraced Christianity, finding comfort in Biblical message of equality and deliverance. ..…

According to Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault, African American girls and women 12 years old and older experienced higher rates of rape and sexual assault than white, Asian, and Latina girls and women from 2005-2010.. Thus, over their lifetimes, there is likelihood that..…

Newseum Displays Sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, First African American Woman to Cover White House and Congress. ... Newseum Displays Sculpture of Alice Allison Dunnigan, First African American Woman to Cover White House and Congress.. ..…

Today, Donald Trump’s Republican Party presents itself as the mouthpiece of the “forgotten American”—presumably white, perhaps African American, but above all a native-born person threatened by immigrants. ..…

AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE NOT BLACK and we must hold pastors accountable to Bible. ..…

Protesters headed into Leighton Criminal Courthouse Wednesday, Sept 5, 2018, Chicago. ..…

By draining its funds, Taney was warrior who helped President Andrew Jackson kill Bank of United States. ..…

August 7 marks Black Women's Equal Pay Day, bringing awareness to the demeaning statistic that it takes additional 219 days for African-American women to earn the annual salary of white men.. ..…

He is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C., and the author of Law & Rise of Capitalism, now in new edition .. ..…

Two years support for allowing gays and lesbians to marry is at its highest point in over 20 years of Pew Research Center polling on the issue... ..…

Every former Supreme Court justice was white and of European until Thurgood Marshall, African American justice, was named to the in 1967. ..…

Pew Research reports have documented great detail how the rise of media has affected such things as work, politics and deliberation, communications patterns around the globe, life, news consumption, communities, life, parenting, dating and even people's level of stress.. ..…

But in the process they have turned the courts of appeals into what Judge Stephen Reinhardt of Court of Appeals for Ninth Circuit has called symbol of white power... Of his 32 appointments to the courts of appeals, he also has been able to locate one African American he..…

This time last year, supporters of penalty moratorium were counting votes Annapolis, preparing for debate that would turn into General Assembly's most surprising victory - and, in the session's final minutes, its most divisive defeat.. ..…

Pew Research Center finds in new analysis of public opinion on broad set of science-related topics that the role of party and ideological differences is not uniform. ..…

But death-penalty opponents say signs of injustice are clear: Eight of the 12 death-row inmates in Maryland are African-American, and all 15 of their victims were white. . ..…

SOUTH CAROLINA'S validation as a top-tier site for manufacturing came in 2011, when Boeing began building its most advanced airliner, the 787, in a new plant in North Charleston, where the population is 47 percent African American, 10 percent Latino and 41 percent white. . ..…

The definition of Black-on-white 'rape in South required no allegation of force because white institutions, laws, and most white people rejected the idea that white woman would willingly consent to sex with African- American man... As examples, what happened in..…

Foster, African-American facing the penalty for killing white woman, Queen Madge White. ..…

Some 8 million African Americans, Malcolm said, 'refused to vote or to take part in politics because they reject the Uncle Tom approach of the 'clergy-politician' leadership that has been handpicked for the American Negroes by the white man himself.' . ... The majority of African..…

But the in City Hall Rotunda was followed by protest led by Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change. ..…

Moreover, the two southern cities, Philadelphia, Mississippi and Selma, Alabama, where the most publicized misconduct by white police officials occurred in 1964 and 1965, now have African-American mayors. ..…

In the current survey, 68% of Millennials say they never doubt the existence of God, decline of 15 points since 2007. ..…

Even in the desperate dog days of McCain-Palin campaign, calling Obama., Obama was Muslim and Arab, and calling Obama uppity --they failed miserably.. ..…

White, African- American mother who works two jobs, was the first person. ..…

The carrier of this particular bill, Sister Kiffmeyer, much of what she gained and gathered and garnered life was off the backs of Civil Rights movement that helped propel women to brand new place American society, said McAfee. ..…

Hard-Pressed Democrats – who are mostly white and African American – take a dim view of immigrants’ contributions. ..…

It mandated that every public school in the nation must test all children in reading and mathematics from grades three through eight and classify the scores by racial and ethnic groups (white, African- American, Latino, Asian-American, Native American, etc.), low-income students,..…

Surveys of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center generally find that a plurality volunteers Hispanic/Latino when asked the following: “What race do you consider yourself to be: white, black or African-American, Asian, or some other race?” ..…