Sometimes you don't know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at 17 and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill. ...more

September 24, 2008

After promising to help prosecute old murder cases from the civil rights era, the FBI has done little but let those cases get even colder. ...more

September 19, 2008

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate led to one of the largest civil rights protests in years pleaded guilty Monday to a misdemeanor battery charge that could see him released from a detention center in about eight months. ...more

December 4, 2007

The death of Martin Lee Anderson could have the same galvanizing effect across the country as the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, protesters said Tuesday on the steps of the capital city's federal courthouse. ...more

October 24, 2007

A black teenager whose prosecution in the beating of a white classmate drew thousands to Louisiana for a civil rights demonstration is back in jail, but a prosecutor said Friday the sentence has nothing to do with the racially charged case. ...more

October 13, 2007

The owner of an auto body shop was killed in a home invasion Tuesday night as his wife and teenage daughter lay face down in the same room, St. Petersburg police said. ...more

September 6, 2007