Federal election monitors have been sent to 11 counties in Mississippi to ensure the voting rights of African-American primary voters, the Justice Department said Monday.
CNN iReport showcases past and present images of Hurricane Katrina's destruction from the people who lived in its wake.
Ron Sparks clenches the Democratic slot in Alabama's gubernatorial race.
In his campaign to become Alabama's first African-American Democratic nominee for governor, U.S. Rep. Artur Davis downplayed race, bucked the black establishment and watched his opponent rack up endorsements from the state's key minority political groups.
Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul Revere was a Civil War casualty.
A federal lawsuit alleges police are seizing money and property of non-whites by threatening them with criminal prosecution.
William Jackson was a slave in the home of Confederate president Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. It turns out he was also a spy for the Union Army, providing key secrets to the North about the Confederacy.
Slaves as spies
updated: Fri Feb 20 2009 13:30:00
Honoring African-American slaves who spied for the Union during the Civil War. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Behind every good war are many good women. Using their feminine (and in at least one case masculine) wiles, the following five spies would make James Bond proud.
There have been presidential daughters almost as long as there have been presidents. (George Washington had no children.)
Live oak trees, many more than 100 years old, are connecting residents of storm-ravaged Mississippi and experts at Mystic Seaport, a Connecticut maritime museum.
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