Bowie supports US race row teens
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David Bowie makes a $10,000 donation to support six black teenagers charged with assault.
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A teenager is suing her school district for barring her from the prom last spring because she was wearing a dress styled as a large Confederate battle flag.
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A British school has launched a pilot program where students as young as 11 are subjected to random drug tests &#151; a project that has generated interest in Washington and fed a civil liberties debate on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Under a barrage of questions from House Judiciary Committee members, a federal prosecutor said yesterday that the hanging of nooses at a high school in Jena, La., constituted a hate crime but that charges were not brought because the students allegedly responsible were juveniles.
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Relations among African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans are fraught with tension and negative stereotypes, but the three groups share core values and a desire to get along better, according to a poll released yesterday by the nonprofit group New America Media.
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A star running back and five black classmates in Jena, Louisiana, were arrested on attempted murder and conspiracy charges after a fight last year left a white student beaten and bloodied. Many say the incident might not have happened if not for the nooses.
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JACKSON, Mississippi  - The families of two black teenagers who were abducted and murdered in a 1964 Mississippi race crime set up a memorial to them on Friday, one day after a former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of kidnapping in the case.
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Black Americans outraged at unequal treatment of pupils in high school dispute
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Decades after the civil rights movement's greatest victories, black youth often see a world rife with discrimination, a new survey says. And yet they remain optimistic about their chances for affecting social change.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Looking to hire a band? March on over to eBay. The James Bowie High School Marching Band, all 250 members of it, are up for bid to raise money for a group trip to Arizona...
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The daughter of conservative Republican Alan Keyes referred to herself Monday as a "liberal queer" and urged support for gay and lesbian young people who have been deserted by their families.
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Residents claim Sheffield teenager was a victim of a 'postcode war' between rival gangs in the city.
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White marchers will wear chains on their hands and yokes on their necks while being escorted by black people, and everyone will wear T-shirts with a message of apology as a group of African and European Christians visits the United States this fall with a message of reconciliation.
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Steve Cohen, a white congressman representing a mostly black district, is no stranger to political attacks tinged with race. A new political flier circulating in the district is forcing him to confront anti-Semitism, too.
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Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and gaining momentum.
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NEW YORK -- The goals were clear when Sheneen Jackson enrolled her son in one of the first public schools in the nation to focus on Arabic language and culture. First, her 11-year-old would master Arabic. Later, doors would open for him in government and diplomacy -- maybe a job at the United...
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NEW YORK -- A pair of shapely legs in low-slung jeans strut through Greenwich Village, sequined rainbows stitched onto the back pockets jiggling from side to side. A lanky teenage girl with red-dyed braids, wearing baggy red basketball shorts, gazes at the rainbows and yells, "I like your jeans."