Kiara Ashanti

Maceo Snipes, a black war veteran, was killed in 1946 when a carload of white men pulled up to the house where he was and...

The $125 Green Bracelet, the first piece from the Simmons Jewelry Co.’s Green Initiative collection, was released in April and is already showing up on...

Former Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee has moved into corporate America as vice-chairman and senior policy adviser for Merrill Lynch while continuing to...

Harriette Cole, editorial director of Uptown magazine and an editor of American Legacy Woman magazine, has left both publications to join Ebony magazine as creative...

At age 23, Kimberly Higginbotham got the news many women her age don’t expect to hear — she had breast cancer. Higginbotham credits early detection...

Chrysler Financial and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation have formed a three-year partnership to provide financial education to college students at historically black colleges and...

A one-time batting champion of the negro leagues managed one more home run before his passing in October. Buck O’Neil, who died from complications of...

When Lloyd Trotter, 61, began his career at General Electric as a tool and die-cast maker in the 1970s, he never thought he’d end up...

Former Congressman J.C. Watts Jr. has become the first African American owner of a John Deere dealership. In May, J.C. Watts Cos. acquired Mustang Equipment,...

A slave burial ground in lower Manhattan has officially been declared a national monument by President Bush. More than 400 remains from the 17th to...