Lee Thompson Young, who began his acting career as the teenage star of the Disney Channel's 'The Famous Jett Jackson' and was featured in the film 'Friday Night Lights' and the series 'Rizzoli & Isles', has been found dead, police said. He was 29.

Hugh Jackman and Lee Daniels are working on a movie about the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Los Angeles-based Homeboy Industries, the job creating project of an Irish-American priest, offers hope and a second chance to hundreds of ex-convicts and even the former boss of a large construction company.

Few of the powerful men who helped shape America in the 20th century are as polarizing as J. Edgar Hoover, considering the peaks and valleys of his nearly half-century-long reign as the director of the FBI and his closely guarded private life.

Hugh Jackman has dropped out of 'Avon Man'.

US President George Bush will spend his last full day in the White House today as the world’s attention turns towards the inauguration of Barack Obama.

COMING out of the Super Tuesday contests, the American presidential campaign should be the Democrats’ to lose.

Karen McCarthy reports from New Hampshire on the fallout from the presidential primary and the likely direction Republican and Democrat candidates will take as the race to the White House gathers pace

Hundreds gathered to mourn Yolanda “Yoki” Denise King, the eldest daughter of the American civil rights campaigner Rev Martin Luther King Jr.

US presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have crossed campaign paths for the first time today.

Tens of thousands of people banged drums, waved US flags and marched in a protest urging federal politicians to pass immigration reform that would legalise an estimated 11 million undocumented workers.

Reunited at last in death, Coretta Scott King was laid to rest beside the tomb of her husband after a stirring funeral with 10,000 mourners that was both lyrical and mournful, and at times political.

The body of Martin Luther King's wife Coretta Scott King arrived in her home city of Atlanta early today and was escorted through the darkened streets to a funeral home in the south-west part of the city.

Rosa Parks’ body has been returned to the city she called home, with thousands waiting in a line more to pay their final respects to the US civil rights leader.

A family feud has erupted over the auction of Marlon Brando's personal property, it emerged today.

Family and friends of the Rev Jesse Jackson are seeking prayers and privacy for the civil rights activist and CNN talk show host .