Mitt Romney got at least one black vote.
Kiowa Costonie did not run away from the 1933 lynching that shocked Maryland. He confronted it.
Forty-one-year-old Traci Johnson has been skateboarding since she was 7 and is now leading black Brooklyn youth into national competition.
Born in Gary, educated at Harvard, Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson has a mission: revitalizing a one-time economic powerhouse now best known as the birthplace of Michael Jackson.
To counteract the humiliations she suffered under Jim Crow, Grandma Mattie tried retaliating and imposing a few on white people.