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"Rosa Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus to a white man sparked a revolution in American race relations, died on Monday. The U.S. civil rights pioneer was 92."- Full Story
"A federal appeals court Thursday upheld the Seattle school district's use of race as a tie-breaking factor in high-school admissions."- Full Story
'Voter and civil rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging Georgia's new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls.' - Full Story
'Bush denied that poor, black victims of Hurricane Katrina were ignored because of their race.'- Full Story
"On Friday night, Grammy-award winning hip-hop superstar Kanye West delivered a blistering critique of President Bush and the administration's response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. 'I hate the way they portray us in the media,' West said. 'If you see a black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food.' " - Full Story
"Black members of Congress expressed anger Friday at what they said was a slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina."- Full Story
"There has been a public outcry, and the managing editor was fired only 24 hours before the presses began an inaugural run. Nevertheless, the New York Times has a new presence in Florida today, the Gainesville Guardian, a weekly paper targeted to about 15,000 local black residents."- Full Story
