WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.— A Times Square street vendor who alerted police to an attempted car bombing in 2010 said Tuesday that he is running for Congress. Duane Jackson said his brush with terrorism and celebrity taught him that it made sense to get involved. “It was kind of an epiphany for me,” he said. “I [...]

San Francisco’s first female black city administrator was sworn in at a ceremony at City Hall today. Naomi Kelly was nominated last month by Mayor Ed Lee, who swore her in to the post after the city’s Board of Supervisors confirmed the appointment by a unanimous vote this afternoon. Kelly is replacing Amy Brown, who [...]

OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – In a career spent climbing ladders, Teresa Deloach-Reed of Oakland has grasped a landmark rung by being named to become the first black woman chief of a major metropolitan U.S. fire department. Deloach-Reed, 53, is slated to take the helm of the 580-person Oakland Fire Department in March, following her appointment [...]

 John H. Johnson was a man who beat the odds.  He turned a $500 loan on his mother’s living room furniture into a multi-million dollar publishing empire that birth Ebony and Jet Magazines. He outfoxed Chicago’s strict code of segregation when he became the first black person to own a skyscraper on Michigan Avenue. For [...]