Tapes reveal that Zimmerman called police "lazy" and "disgusting."

In a piece for Ebony, Ebonie Johnson Cooper asks whether the Clair-and-Cliff, Jada-and-Will and Barack-and-Michelle standard is actually getting in her way.

Clarence Page notes in his Chicago Tribune column that, as the country's demographics change, blacks could teach whites a little something about minority status.

The longtime black disc jockey, whose career spanned 70 years, left a major mark on the airwaves.