Black in America - Stories on Family, Education and Employment - Civil Rights, Racial Discrimination and Violence

Success and Struggle

• America's churches still segregated on Sundays
• AIDS leading cause of death among black women between ages 25 and 34
• Black and single: Is marriage only for white people? | Black men respond
• Soledad O'Brien: Shopping while black in America
• AIDS: The cavalry is not coming to save us
• Don Lemon: Black and white, and a target of both
• Lynn Whitfield: I'm neither black nor white, I'm both
• AC360.com: The Rand family's black and white cousins meet for the first time
• DNA provides clues to family's African ancestry
• CNN producer: A conversation that's long overdue
• AC360.com: Why Soledad O'Brien, Barack Obama and others are black
• Marvelyn Brown's 'Naked Truth': Young, beautiful and HIV positive
• Stephanie Elam: Recessions and black America
• Robotics competition sparks interest in math, science among kids
• Angela Burt-Murray: Black women consider interracial relationships
• Commentary: Black women's hair | Long, short, natural, permed, locked or braided
• Volunteers save high-school dropouts one student at a time
• Keeping it real: Sisters and brothers talk about modern love and marriage
• Lola Ogunnaike: Italian Vogue says black is the new black
• Teens from single-parent, female-headed households defy the odds
• Commentary: Why Americans can't get over race
• I AM: Author Bliss Broyard's father kept his race a secret
• I AM: Barbara Hillary is the first black woman to reach the North Pole at age 75
• Interactive: Vanessa Williams, Whoopi Goldberg talk about what it means to black
• CNN's HBCU Tour: Students share what it means to be black in America
• Celebrities talk about what it means to be black in America

In the News

• Aggressive, drug-resistant breast cancer affects black women
• Black press offers alternative perspective to mainstream media
• HBCUs, business leaders help groom future entrepreneurs
• 'Call My Name' adds color to AIDS quilt
• Young People Who Rock: Rissi Palmer is changing the face of country music

From Our Partners

• Tatsha Robertson: Education is No. 1 issue for black America
• Essence: Extreme Lockup: Why are so many children being treated like criminals?
• Essence: Experts discuss greatest challenges for black Americans in 2008
• Lynya Floyd: Why are so many black women single?
• Essence: Women of war share their courageous stories from combat
• Essence: Black women whose roles shape the 2008 presidential campaign
• Essence Music Festival: A festival of empowerment

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CNN Presents: Black in America continues with "The Black Woman & Family." Soledad O'Brien explores the varied experiences of black women and families and investigates the disturbing statistics of single parenthood, racial disparities between students and the devastating toll of HIV/AIDS. O'Brien reports on the progress of black women in the workplace and the status of the black middle class. CNN TV schedule | Full credits

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