Sarah Palafox, an African American woman who sings regional Mexican music, poses in Moreno Valley, Calif., in this undated photo. Palafox, who goes by the name Sarah La Morena, was […]
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A Tour in the Footsteps of Famous African-Americans in Paris
PARIS (AP) — The great African-American writers James Baldwin and Richard Wright began their feud over Wright’s novel “Native Son,” at Cafe Les Deux Magots. Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis held […]
Last Kerner Commission Member Haunted, Hopeful on Race in US
CORRALES, N.M. (AP) — Nearly 50 years after the Kerner Commission studied the causes of deadly riots in America’s cities, its last surviving member says he remains haunted that its […]
July Fourth Holiday Brings Mixed Feelings for Minorities
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As many in the United States celebrate the Fourth of July holiday, some minorities have mixed feelings about the revelry of fireworks and parades in an […]
Black Harvard Doctor Pens Memoir of Jim Crow South
BOSTON (AP) — Growing up in segregated Memphis during the segregation era, Augustus White III knew about those certain places off-limits to him as a Black man – restrooms, diners […]