U.S. Offering $5 Million for Kony Leads
The US is offering $5 million for information leading to the arrest, transfer or conviction of Jose...
Haiti Protests U.S. State Department Warning
Haiti defended itself this week against scathing travel advisories issued by the U.S. and Canadian ...
Feisty Clinton: U.S. Strengthening Embassy Security
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is grilled by Senate committee on Benghazi attacks....
Commentary: Move Over Shonda Rhimes, Here Comes the GOP
The three political dramas feature President Obama as the new Richard Nixon and Republicans in Cong...
Haiti PM: US State Dept to Send Legal Team
Haiti's prime minister says a team of legal experts from the U.S. State Department will visit the C...
Commentary: A Sad Ending to Susan Rice’s State Department Dream
Susan Rice’s decision to bow out ends a sad spectacle of unreasonable Republican attacks on a brill...
Redistricting and Voting Rights Roundup
South Carolina and Texas are not giving up on the fight to preserve their new voting laws....
Assata Shakur Named a Most Wanted Terrorist
Assata Shakur, who was convicted of killing a New Jersey state trooper, is the first woman on the F...
Civil Rights Advocates Express "Nervousness" in the Voting Rights Fight
Oral arguments began in the Supreme Court on a case involving the Voting Right Act of 1965....
U.S. Could Bring Hate Charge in Fla. Teen Shooting
Legal experts and former prosecutors say George Zimmerman could be charged with a hate crime....
Justice Department Opposes Texas Voter ID Law
The Justice Department has rejected Texas' voter ID law because it would disenfranchise Hispanic vo...
Office of Minority Health Seeks to Improve Black Lives
During National Minority Health Month, BET.com looks at a department within the federal government ...
US names special coordinator for Haiti response
The U.S. State Department has named a special coordinator to oversee Washington's reconstruction pl...
Officials: U.S. Seeks Credible Egypt Elections
WASHINGTON – The United States is asking besieged Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to lift th...
Some US rebuilding money finally headed to Haiti
The first portion of U.S. reconstruction money for Haiti is on its way more than seven months after...
Holbrooke Remembered as 'Giant' of U.S. Diplomacy
WASHINGTON – Few U.S. diplomats had the breadth, depth or length of service of Richard Holbro...
Alcorn State University Blazes Path for HBCUs
Leaders at the university make an ambitious overhaul in operations to attract more students and rai...
Big Obama Donor Quits Envoy Job Amid Criticism
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As a supporter of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Cynthia Stroum was a supe...
Clinton Brings Aid to New Libyan Government
Just two months after Moammar Gadafhi was driven from Tripoli, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clin...
U.S. Senator Raises Concerns About Haiti Vote Fraud
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy urged the State Department on Friday to look at the visa and U.S. residency...
