When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and signing books there. But what she gets instead is a first
Who killed Ev and why? The three most likely suspects are Ev's competitors -- publishers of the country's other popular black magazines who all had plenty of good reasons to make sure Ev never receive
A newly revised modern manual of manners and etiquette that has become an African American classic.Unlike the more traditional etiquette books that many African Americans may find stodgy, off-putting,
President-elect Barack Obama reflected on the life of Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, singling her out of millions of voters, he said, because she was "born just a generation past slav
The 107-year-old woman that President Barack Obama singled out in his election-night acceptance speech reflects on her long and inspiring life, a culturally rich life lived to its fullest rewards, des
