Washington (CNN) -- The NAACP has passed a resolution that condemns what it feels is rampant racism in the Tea Party movement. Members passed the measure on Tuesday at the organization's 101st annual convention in Kansas City, Missouri. Tea Party activists have swiftly denounced the action as unfounded and unfair. The resolution pits the nation's oldest civil rights organization, with its...

Emogene Mitchell spent two decades in the cocoon of a multinational research institute, rising to vice president in charge of events planning. Then the economy tanked, and the workload shriveled. In the heart of the Great Recession, Mitchell was ready to join the soaring number of minorities and women who are starting their own businesses and are expected to fuel much of the job growth over the...

Racial and cultural differences may impact how early people with dementia are diagnosed, the type of care they receive and how long they live— and they even impact the way families of Alzheimer's patients deal with grief when their loved one dies, according to several new studies. Research presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Honolulu, H...

(CNN) -- Spanish actors Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz tied the knot in the Bahamas earlier this month, the latter's publicist told CNN late Tuesday night. The wedding took place at a friend's house, said Cruz's publicist Amanda Silverman, without specifying exactly when it happened. It was a small ceremony with just family members, Silverman said. Cruz wore a dress designed by her lo...

DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money. The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Naz...

Tiger Woods is across the pond now, and the British journalists are getting their first crack at the battered golf superstar. It's kind of cute, really, watching them make their attempts at getting under Tiger's skin months after the same routine was tried stateside. Give them credit, they tried, but Tiger would have none of that. From a transcript of the first press conference by Geoff Shackelf...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- Zimbabwe's president said Tuesday his nation will sell its massive reserves of diamonds despite not receiving authorization from the world's diamond control body. A defiant President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday told lawmakers diamond sales have "huge potential" to revive the shattered economy. He said Zimbabwe can account for one-fourth of the world's diamond supply. ...

CUERNAVACA, Mexico — Three dead bodies were found Tuesday hanging from pedestrian bridges in the central Mexican city of Cuernavaca Morelos state prosecutors' spokesman Efrain Vega said the victims were shot to death. The bodies were accompanied by threatening notes signed by a drug gang. Vega said the three men escaped from a state prison last month. The message accused them of working ...