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Even though she won't start until January 2009, Paula Allen-Meares has big plans as the first Black chancellor for the University of Illinois-Chicago.

DETROIT Auto industry cutbacks, double-digit unemployment and one of the nation's highest home foreclosure rates have left Detroit with a dreary economic future.

Michelle Obama has all of a sudden become the center of attention in the election because she is perceived by John McCain's people to have made Barack Obama vulnerable to an attack on his loyalty to the country.

Economists have said the soft economy has many poor families struggling to make ends meet and now with a hike in the local sales tax, tourists and residents said they will now look outside of Cook County for shopping opportunities.

WASHINGTON Financial regulators on Monday announced an information-sharing agreement aimed at better detecting potential risks to the U.S. financial system.

WASHINGTON Consumers boosted their borrowing in May, mostly reflecting heavy credit card use to finance their purchases.

Dear Gwendolyn: My brother wants to remove my grandmother from her home where she has lived for over 50 years.

Dear Gwendolyn:I have been married for four years. Two years into our marriage I became pregnant. My husband was ecstatic and we looked forward to our unborn. However, just months before his birth we were advised something was wrong.

It's about time. That was Karl A. Brinson's reaction to the NAACP's selection of its youngest president ever, 35-year-old Benjamin Jealous. Jealous, a Rhodes Scholar and former director of Amnesty International's U.S. Human Rights Program, got the nod fro

A woman was held in contempt for shouting "Free R. Kelly" while the 15-member jury in the R&B singer's child pornography trial was being esorted by sheriff deputies to the courtroom Thursday.