American activist C. DeLores Tucker (born 1927) has risen to national prominence in African American civil rights circles through her tireless activism and political fundraising. The struggle to end racism and make her world a more equal, multicultural...

C. DeLores Tucker, a fiery and effective civil rights activist for more than 50 years, died this past October from heart failure at a rehabilitation hospital in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She was 78 years old. Born in Philadelphia, Tucker was the tenth child of Bahamian...

Baltimore Afro-American 10-28-2005 America will remember Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, the great civil rights activist, for many things, but those closest to her will remember her for being a self-starter -- one who knew how to get things done and how not to lag...

Overflowing with conscious rhymes and bitter jabs at the record industry, Talib Kweli’s The Official Sucka Free Mixtape is quintessential Kweli… most of the time.“Right About Now,” the opening track, which Kweli calls the song that “sums up this project,” finds the rapper reminiscing over...

Fighting in vain to keep his job, radio host Don Imus claimed that rappers routinely "defame and demean black women" and call them "worse names than I ever did."That's an argument many people made as the Imus fallout intensified, culminating with his firing Thursday for...