Anne Arundel County school officials say they believe they are making progress in closing the achievement gap between black and white students

US police are investigating a video showing a group of officers in Philadelphia apparently pulling three suspects out of a car and beating them.

Denver voters will soon decide if cars should be impounded for drivers who don't have a valid driver's license.

He Hit 114 Miles Per Hour In A '66 Chevy Nova...

A woman accused of running down a man in her car after getting into a Red Sox-Yankees argument never hit her brakes as she accelerated toward the small group he was in, a prosecutor said

One day after he was fired as the Dallas Mavericks head coach, Avery Johnson said the decision was inevitable.  "It had to be done,"

A Good Samaritan is having a change of heart after being robbed by the people he tried to help. "It don't pay to stop and help nobody no more. It won't do nothing but hurt you," says Bill Storey.

"How Do You Get Kids Excited About Vocabulary Words?  Tell Them They Can Change The World."

A local elementary school still under construction was the target of graffiti vandals, in what school police are calling an extreme case. Now residents of that neighborhood are wondering if they will have to pay to clean it up.

This secret muscle is the pubococcygeus or PC muscle.

About a dozen members of a San Diego street gang have moved north to a luxury apartment complex next to Cal State San Marcos and are dealing drugs to its students

Listen To Perhaps The Most Important Hearing Ever Held On Black Male Unemployment.  Why Isn't This Election Issue # 1 In Black America?  And Why Is Senator Charles Schumer's Voice Louder Than Black political Leaders?

An African-American business owner says he received a racist letter in the mail. The threatening letter contained a picture of a noose.  The business owner owns Random Elegance, a cafe and night club that opened up about a year and a half ago. It is the first African-American owned business in Silver Creek's history.

Scott Jones said he came home and his laptop was gone, also missing was his roommate's computer.  Even more bizarre was the deadbolt on the door was still locked and there were no signs of a break-in.

"I was shocked," said Jones.  "At first I thought it was maybe someone who lived here before, but then we got to thinking about it.  Maintenance comes in here all the time and maintenance comes in when we are not even here."

The Story Of A Black Suburb

The Ghost Of J. Edgar Hoover

What Would Carter G. Woodson Think?

“Quilombo Country,” a documentary film shot in digital video, provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or begun from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means "encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.

In 1979 Cuba sent 20,000 troops to Ethiopia to fight off the invading Somalis. In return, Cuba offered to take in Ethiopian orphans and provide them primary education, military training, and university scholarships. 2,400 Ethiopian orphan children arrived, ranging from age six to thirteen. The children were sent to study in rural boarding schools on a small island, la Isla de Juventud, off the coast of Cuba.  The Unhealing Wound documents the present day situations of these young children, now adults, and the various ways their lives have been altered by their years of exile in Cuba.

Harry B. is a film director from Monrovia Liberia –West Africa. His goal is to one day put West Africa on the world's map as a viable film and entertainment nation.