Mar 9th, 2005 · In an issue of the journal Health Affairs that is devoted to racial disparities in health care, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher calls for greater equality in health care to close the gaps between blacks and whites in death rates and life expectancy.
Feb 16th, 2005 · NFL owners will meet next month to approve the sale of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings to Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler for a reported $625 million. The NFL is the last of the major league sports to have a racial or ethnic minority owner.
Feb 5th, 2005 · New York Times film critic Elvis Mitchell talks about the life and career of actor, writer, director and civil rights activist Ossie Davis. A familiar face on stage and screen -- as well as the front lines of the fight against racial injustice -- Davis died Friday at 87.
Feb 4th, 2005 · Actor Ossie Davis has died at 87. He was found this morning in a hotel room in Miami, where he was making a film called Retirement. The cause of death was not immediately known. Davis was a distinguished presence on stage, on screen, and as an activist taking on racial injustice.
Feb 1st, 2005 · For nearly a century, civil rights organizations have fought for racial equality in the United States -- but the organizations that once led the fight so vigorously are now wrapped up in struggles of their own. Reporter Allison Keyes wraps up her two-part series on the state of American civil rights organizations with a look at what some are calling the "new" civil rights movement.
Jan 17th, 2005 · The Macy's department store chain has agreed to pay $600,000 in damages and promised to make sure race isn't a factor in the way it identifies suspected shoplifters.
Nov 30th, 2004 · Kevin Boyle's Arc of Justice tells the true story of a black physician's fight to keep his family home in the face of violent threats from white neighbors in 1920s Detroit. Boyle won a National Book Award.
Nov 10th, 2004 · Author Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name tells the story of the racial and sexual tension surrounding a 1970 lynching in Tyson's hometown of Oxford, N.C.