African-Americans voted 2-1 in favor of the North Carolina amendment banning gay marriage Tuesday, but the White House is betting that black voters there and beyond will stick with the president, despite broad resistance to legalization.
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Stone carver Sean Callahan measures a plaster cast of a Rosa Parks sculpture that will be carved into the human rights "porch" at Washington National Cathedral. (CRAIG W. STAPERT, WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL / HC)
Washington National Cathedral is preparing to dedicate a new carving of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in a section of the church devoted to human rights.
Continue reading Rosa Parks Receives Carving In Washington National Cathedral.
Stephanie Montgomery said she voted for John McCain in 2008 for his conservative views. (Michael McElroy for The New York Times)
This is the land of die-hard Democrats -- mill workers, coal miners and union members. They have voted party line for generations, forming a reliable constituency for just about any Democrat who decides to run for office.
Continue reading 4 Years Later, Some Voters Still Balk at Having a Black President.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has gone through a period of instability at the top for nearly a decade, saw another change in leadership Friday.
Continue reading Nephew of Martin Luther King Jr. Out as SCLC President.
President Barack Obama sits on the famed Rosa Parks bus at the Henry Ford Museum following an event on April 18 in Dearborn, Mich. (Pete Souza / The White House via Getty Images)
A just-released picture by the White House shows a tender moment President Barack Obama had while in Michigan on Wednesday.
Continue reading Obama Sits Inside Rosa Parks' Bus.
Bill Cosby said Sunday that the debate over the killing of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer should be focused on guns, not race.
Continue reading Bill Cosby Says Focus of Trayvon Martin Case Should Be On Guns, Not Race.
Trayvon Martin's body was found in this part of the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Fla., where his father's girlfriend lives. (Mario Tama / Getty Images file)
A modest central Florida community becomes a civil rights rallying point
Continue reading Florida Town of Sanford Finds Itself in Racial Firestorm.
People attend a rally demanding justice for Trayvon Martin in Freedom Plaza, Saturday, March 24, 2012, in Washington. (Haraz N. Ghanbari / AP Photo)
The family and supporters of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin found themselves on the defensive Monday following revelations he had been suspended for marijuana before he was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer. Police also confirmed a report that the watchman claimed Martin was the aggressor, punching him in the nose and smacking his head on a sidewalk.
Protestors, Lakesha Hall, 32, of Sanford, center, and her son, Calvin Simms, 12, right, gather early for a rally for Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain last month, at Fort Mellon Park in Sanford, Fla., Thursday, March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Julie Fletcher)
The investigation into last month's shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in an Orlando suburb is out of the hands of the beleaguered police chief and the county prosecutor with the Justice Department looking at possible civil rights violations and a grand jury perhaps considering charges.
In this file photo of June 3, 2001, Ada Sharpton, the mother of the Rev. Al Sharpton, is flanked by his daughters, Ashley, 14, left, and Dominique, 15, after they all visited Sharpton at the Metropolitan Detention Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York, where he was serving a 90-day sentence for trespassing on U.S. Navy property during a May 1 protest on Vieques. (Robert Spencer / AP)
The 87-year-old mother of the Rev. Al Sharpton has died.
Continue reading Rev. Al Sharpton's Mother Dies at 87.
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