Richmond Area Arts Council will be offering everything from singing and hip hop dancing to clogging and puppetry during its Fun With the Arts after-school program.

PHILADELPHIA (Thursday, July 17) - Philadelphia Soul defensive back Mike Brown was named the recipient of the 2008 AFL Al Lucas Hero Award today by the league, after being announced as a finalist for the award on Monday.

The flashpoints are familiar, even worn out: Was race a factor in the prosecution of the black teenagers dubbed the "Jena 6" and charged with beating a white teen? Should The New Yorker magazine have satirized stereotypes of race on its cover?

Chinese-American author of Bone Fae Myenne Ng was at Moe’s Books in Berkeley this week, presenting her new novel in a dialogue with Berkeley author Ishmael Reed. Ng revealed that she had been a student years ago in Reed’s creative writing class at UC,

New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. joined community leaders Thursday to decry a recent torrent of hate mail the city has received in response to its decision to fly the Mexican flag on the New Haven Green in honor of Mexican independence day last week.