Ninety-one-year-old Rev. Joseph Lowery may not have been able to campaign as much as he did four years ago at the age of 87. But, canvassing the state of Georgia for the Obama re-election, Lowery is doing all he can to turn out the Black vote. ...

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings has said it will remove ads from its billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin that carried a warning saying “Voter fraud is a felony.” The billboards drew the outrage of politicians and civil rights groups who said the message was part of a voter suppression effort designed to intimidate Black voters from going to the polls on Nov. 6. ...

Another Michigan city has fallen under the command of an emergency financial manager (EFM). Joyce Parker was appointed as EFM to Allen Park on Oct. 25. The city, with a budget of $15 million, faces an estimated $6 million deficit for this fiscal year. ...

The overflow audience rose as one. They enthusiastically cheered the Rev. Al Sharpton. His electrifying, passionate message: Don’t let the gains of the Civil Rights Movement and the historic election of President Obama be taken away. “People died to get us the right to vote,” Rev. Sharpton powerfully reminded an audience of more than 1,500 people Oct. 9. “People lost their careers. Children were bombed in c ...

As she looked back, it was the simple things in life that she missed the most about her father. And all she can do now is remember. “I turned on the news and saw the car. The license plate was blurred but deep down I knew it was my father‘s car. I knew before they even said anything.” ...

In 2008, 96 percent of Blacks and 67 percent of Latinos voted for Obama. He’s going to need that support again on Nov. 6 to beat back the challenge of Mitt Romney in a race that’s too close to call. ...

Manufacturing organizations are partnering after receiving a $2.19 million federal grant through the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge. ...

With one supporter of affirmative action retired and another declining to participate because of a conflict of interest, the concept of affirmative action is barely hanging by a thread as the United States Supreme Court justices prepare to rule in a case that involved a white woman suing the University of Texas because race was a minor factor in the admissions process. ...

After several days of testimony and strong direction from the State Supreme Court, Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson reversed himself and approved an injunction of Philadelphia’s voter ID law. ...

With the Black jobless rate astronomically high, schools crumbling in Black neighborhoods, low test scores and dropout rates plaguing Black children and home foreclosures, incarceration, death and disease soaring in Black communities, why is it that some Black people are saying they will not go to the voting polls because President Barack Obama agrees with same-sex marriage? ...