Serving Selma and The Black Belt Since 1827
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President Bush on Friday named Treasury deputy secretary Samuel Bodman as secretary of the Energy Department, filling one of the last openings in his second-term Cabinet.
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The Rev. James Orange, a civil rights activist whose 1965 jailing sparked a fatal protest that ultimately led to the famed Selma-to-Montgomery march and the Voting Rights Act, died Saturday at Atlanta's Crawford Long Hospital, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference said in a statement. He was 65.
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SELMA, Alabama  - Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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By Paul Beebe, The Salt Lake Tribune  Feb. 13--The Utah Black Chamber of Commerce, established one year ago,  will hold its first formal-attire social event on Feb. 24, capping a daylong  conference on topics as varied as civic participation and starting a business.
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The stretch of southeast Chicago along Lake Michigan was built on steel. In its heyday, about 200,000 people were employed here in the steel mills and other industries related to steel production and shipping.
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Born into slavery, Henry Vinton Plummer served honorably in the Union Navy during the Civil War, went on to attend seminary, then became the Army's first black chaplain. But Plummer's stellar career went bad in 1894: While chaplain, he was court-martialed and dishonorably discharged for drinking with an enlisted man and cursing in front of the man's wife and children.
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LINCOLN, Neb. - Paul Owen turned 90 this week, and he's still getting his kicks from judo. "I don't know what keeps me young," Owen said. Maybe it's the kids he teaches at John Roseberry's Sho-Rei-Shobu-Kan Martial Arts Center in Lincoln.
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Feb. 18--BATON -- The Rev. Clifton Black thought a message about coping with change was most appropriate for today's sermon.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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Some 20,000 are expected in Atlanta this week to show that they can work together despite political and religious divisions.
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Where: Saint Philip's Episcopal Church, 7th and Byers Avenue, Joplin, Missouri. When: Thursday, September 30, at 7 pm.
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Americans paused Monday to remember Martin Luther King and his legacy. A commemorative service marking the King holiday was planned at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King was preacher from 1960 until his assassination in 1968 at age 39, and thousands of people were expected to take part in an afternoon rally and march through downtown Atlanta.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep.
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To: ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS  Contact: Lynn McReynolds, +1-410-268-0275, lynn@mcreynoldselek.com, for TV One; or Rica Orszag of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project, +1-202-253-8974, rorszag@mlkmemorial.org   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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The John MacLean Society and Clydeside Press have done the socialist movement a great service by republishing this excellent and inspirational biography of John MacLean by his daughter, Nan Milton.
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Justice is long overdue Jack Johnson. The first black heavyweight champion, the Muhammad Ali of the early 20th century, deserves a posthumous presidential pardon for a racially motivated conviction that sent him to prison for a year.
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As they battle for support in the black community in their quest for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will attend Sunday's commemoration of the historic 1965 Selma voting rights march.