A suburban Philadelphia swim club's board should resign to settle claims that the club canceled the pool memberships of dozens of minority children because of their race, a lawyer for most of the children's families said Monday. ...more

July 13, 2009

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. (AP) -- She'd spent a lifetime less than an hour's drive away, but it had never crossed Joquetta Johnson's mind to visit Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. What, she wondered when a friend suggested it, could a park in rural, lily-white West Virginia hold for a black teacher from Baltimore? ...more

July 7, 2008

A study finds that children who regularly see doctors get the right care less than half the time - whether it's preschool shots or chlamydia tests for teenage girls. ...more

October 11, 2007