BET, the leading network tailored for black teens and young adults, will be joined by a new channel aimed at an older black audience.

The Sioux were driven from the majestic Black Hills more than 130 years ago in a series of battles that included Gen. George Custer’s defeat at Little Big Horn, but some haven’t given up the hope of getting back their sacred ancestral land.

The Agriculture Department plans to review more than 14,000 civil rights complaints that have been filed against the agency since 2000.

As a senator, Barack Obama led the charge last year to pass a bill allowing black farmers to seek new discrimination claims against the Agriculture Department. Now he is president, and his administration so far is acting like it wants the potentially budg

Black players accounted for 10.2 percent of major leaguers last year, the most since the 1995 season.

The Black & Decker Corp.’s longtime chief executive saw his 2008 compensation dip by nearly 4 percent in 2008, as the toolmaker’s full-year profit dropped by nearly half, according to a regulatory disclosure Monday.

President Barack Obama reassured members of the Congressional Black Caucus that he’s on their side and will do what he can to support the group’s left-leaning agenda, lawmakers said Thursday after an hour-long session at the White House.

President Barack Obama may be in familiar company when he sits down for his first White House meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, but it won’t be a clubby reunion.

Medieval silver vessels, historic coins and glittering jewelry believed to have been hidden by Jews who feared persecution as the Black Death raged through 14th Century Europe have gone on display in London.

The Ku Klux Klan was rising again. Segregation was the law and Martin Luther King Jr. was not even born yet.