An Aiken County developer discovered what he calls “racist graffiti” on a stop sign in this subdivision, Wednesday morning. The letters KKK were spray painted on the sign in the Herndon Pointe Subdivision, off of Silver Bluff Road, in Aiken.

The White House says President Barack Obama doesn’t believe he’s being criticized because of his race. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday that Obama - the nation’s first black president - doesn’t think that criticism of his policies is “based on the color of his skin.“

The NAACP may be 100 years old, but it’s using the latest technology to fight racism. The NAACP will officially launch the program to monitor incidents of police misconduct at its annual convention in New York City. Members are gathering there to mark NAACP’s centennial; The civil rights group was founded in New York City in 1909.

One of the country’s main monitors of hate groups is asking Congress to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding service members on a social networking Web site advertised as being for whites only.

A former South Carolina election official has apologized for his Internet posting that compared a gorilla to an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama. Former state Election Commission Chairman Rusty DePass read a statement during an NAACP news conference in Columbia Wednesday saying his comments were offensive and foolish. WJBF News Channel 6’s SC Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

The state NAACP is demanding an apology from a former South Carolina official whose Internet posting suggested a gorilla that escaped from the Columbia zoo was an ancestor of first lady Michelle Obama.

Time now to honor another African-American achievement as we celebrate Black History Month. One local woman defied the odds and started an all-black owned and operated community center in Augusta. WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud has the story.

It was an eyebrow-raising rally in Augusta Tuesday night at the Unity Missionary Baptist Church. Organizers say the purpose was to discuss an alleged noose incident at the John Deere plant in Grovetown. Although the alleged incident took place during the summer the case surfaced again because of some other current racial accusations.