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The Supreme Court limited the reach of the Voting Rights Act on Monday, a decision that could make it harder for some minority candidates to win election when voting districts are redrawn.

The government's report Friday of an 8.1 percent unemployment rate equals the jobless number that the Obama administration has projected for the entire year.

African-Americans are more optimistic about their financial outlook next year than the general population is.

Erick Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, and the daughter of former segregationist Alabama governor, George C. Wallace, celebrated the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march Sunday.

The $787 billion stimulus has begun flowing into the economy, but President Obama isn't done selling its merits to Americans.

Saying his administration has done more in the past 30 days to advance "progressive change" than has been done in many years, President Obama touted his early record to a meeting of black leaders in Los Angeles.

Only days after Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn established a time frame for U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., to give up his seat or watch lawmakers move against him with a special-election law, the state's chief executive backed down Monday and said it was time to "move on."

Joe Epstein's heart did a little flip-flop when he opened an e-mail from a staffing firm that promised a portal to a new job.