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Following the crowning of Indian-American Nina Davuluri as Miss America on Sunday, some angry Twitter users filled the Internet with racist tweets. But this time, many others fired back.

Bail set for JIA bomb hoax suspect, the Klan writes to city school board members, and a possible rash of attempted child abductions are in the headlines…

When medical research is published in a peer-reviewed journal, the presumption is that the study has been reviewed for accuracy. The advent of open-access journals has made it easier to be published.

The ruling in the closely watched case found that the state's practices discouraged students from considering black colleges and universities. It follows a recent report that concluded states were pitting their historically black institutions against predominantly white schools.

Two Jacksonville-based Camp Montford Point Marines were honored with Congressional Gold Medals at City Hall today.Camp Montford in North Carolina was a…

Students deemed "willfully defiant" accounted for nearly half of California's 700,000 suspensions last year. Many educators are cheering the Los Angeles Unified School District's decision to ban such suspensions, arguing the category is too broad and disproportionately targeted black students.

Many Boomers nearing retirement find they've got a decision to make: do they quit? Do they work a few more years? Or do they quit and get another job…

The six jurors, all women, were handed the case on Friday after three weeks of testimony and 50 witnesses.

Police and FBI in East Cleveland are piecing together information after three bodies were found in trash bags over the weekend. Authorities believe the killings are related, and a man is in custody in connection with the case. Officials say they don't know if there are more bodies to be found in the hardscrabble Cleveland suburb.

America's first Freedom Riders may well have been the black musicians who, in the '30s and '40s, broke ground in Hollywood. Those could have been milestone moments, but the industry responded to provincial concerns and allowed Jim Crow markets to cut out integrated scenes.