*In Maryland politics Tuesday, one African American woman made history while another had her home seized by state prosecutors. Democratic lawyer and nonprofit executive Donna Edwards won a special election Tuesday to become Maryland's first black woman elected to Congress. She beat Republican Peter James in the race to serve the remainder of former U.S. Rep. Albert Wynn's term in Maryland's 4th District.

The graduation rate for Asian students is approximately 87 percent. For Caucasians, it's 76 percent. About 62 percent of African-American students receive a high school diploma, while only 58 percent of Hispanics satisfactorily complete their high school studies.

They were attracted to his message of diversity and unity, but two Muslim women who went to Barack Obama's rally at Joe Louis Arena on Monday went home feeling left out. The campaign apologized to the women Tuesday and in a statement issued Wednesday, blamed the incident on the volunteers.

*ESPN.com columnist Jemele Hill was suspended from her post Monday for a piece that invoked the creator of the Holocaust in describing fan support for the Boston Celtics in their NBA Finals series with the Los Angeles Lakers. "Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It's like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan," Hill wrote in her column, titled "Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics."

*Rev. Al Sharpton has released a statement condemning the New York Post for publishing articles that accuse him of shaking down corporate CEOs through threats of boycotts. The most recent article, published Sunday by writers Isabel Vincent and Susan Edelman, claims that several companies donated thousands of dollars to Sharpton's National Action Network after the civil rights activist threatened to accuse them of racist practices.

*The next project from "Indiana Jones" writer/producer George Lucas will be "Red Tails," a film about the Tuskegee Airmen and their record of successfully escorting thousands of U.S. bombers during World War II. The unit's surviving members tell the Associated Press that they'd also like the film to show the hardships they endured on the home front, like seeing German prisoners of war being treated better and afforded rights that were withheld from black American citizens.