In the wake of a tumultuous election year, African-Americans assembled in Washington this past weekend for Tavis Smiley Presents Black Think Tank II: State of the Black Union, a one-day symposium held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel to discuss the agenda of African-Americans, with issues ..

WASHINGTON _ It has a name like a traditional household item: the envelope. Or like food: the baguette, the pancake.It sits locked behind a glass display window in a department store, or perched on a shelf in a trendy boutique. It also dangles, swinging in the wind, off a metal spike on a street ..

WASHINGTON _ Jackie Massey, a former resident of Washington D.C.'s public housing, called her neighborhood a "block of pain". "It was highly concentrated, dense, and full of pain," said Massey, a resident of D.C.'s public housing. "I call it my block of pain. We had a lot of crime drugs and ..

WASHINGTON – He lost an election to a dead man, but John Ashcroft buried his opposition as the Senate confirmed his nomination as U.S. Attorney General yesterday, ending a partisan feud and brought protesters – both for and against Ashcroft – to the Capitol.Republican Ashcroft, ..

The rat"It was as big as a rabbit , I'm telling you, man," he said, and as he talked he made a funny long face with wide open eyes, and just to back up his story, his hands would suggest the size of that humongous rat."And it's not like it came down running and vanished, it's like she ..

by Philip Elliott and Laura M. SchneiderWASHINGTON – Wilson Greatbatch gave the money to his wife, quit his job and went to his backyard workshop. He had saved $2000 in cash, enough to support his family for two years, and spent that time producing 50 pacemakers. At a ceremony yesterday at ..

Just another morningThere she was, forever beautiful, and -that is the scary part- perfectly aware of her beauty. She did it on purpose, just as a game, you could easily tell she enjoyed it utterly if you weren't busy with the paper, the magazine, the book or all the worries that whirled in ..

The hoboIt was late. People were tired or so seemed their faces, too distracted to read the paper, to unwilling to stay standing; sweeping the car in the search for a seat even if it meant sitting just next to a long bearded creep with a olive green shirt and a lot of weird signs about CIA and its ..

WASHINGTON -- A severe nursing shortage in the United States has given foreign-educated nurses a chance at jobs that once seemed unthinkable: ones that pay them fairly for their work, earn them the respect of their colleagues and afford them the autonomy to make patient care decisions without ..

The teacherHe seemed to be comfortable, leaning on a tube at the Metro Car, that man in his early 60's, a thin body with a pronounced belly that proved he just spent too much time sitting in the office. The white shirt, the tie, impeccable shoes, glasses, tired eyes and soft hands, (the kind of ..