By The Editors
President Obama will nominate Jacqueline A. Berrien, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), to be the new Chair of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

By The Editors
Describing her as “one of the most qualified nominees … for the Supreme Court in decades,” the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) has “strongly” endorsed Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be the Court’s newest Associate Justice.

By Smita Ghosh
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) was honored recently for its 2008 battle against deceptive anti-affirmative action ballot initiatives in five states.

By Tananarive Due
The NAACP means much more to me than its landmark victories or a century of interracial social struggle—it is where I was raised.

By TaRessa Stovall
Isn’t this 2009?
Don’t we have a black president, commander-in-chief, leader of the free world, and all that?
Then why are we reading, watching and hearing about a situation better suited to a period piece film demonstrating the insane, irrational hatred of racism back in the Jim Crow era of legalized and government-sanctioned racial apartheid in America?

By Askia Muhammad
Since President Obama’s election, the mainstream media has taken significant notice of the fact that black journalists, too, cover national affaits and that now more than ever, they’re being assigned to cover both the President and the First Lady. But, typically, that notice has omitted much, if not all of the “back story” – the history of black journalists among the White House press. Askia Muhammad, who covered Presidents from 1977 to 2007, fills in the gaps.

By Lee A. Daniels
July 8 – Yesterday’s restrained and poignant ceremony in Los Angeles mourning Michael Jackson underscored what has been evident since he died: the chasm between the regard of him by the masses of ordinary people around the globe and the treatment of him by the media these past two decades.

By Martha Southgate
Ten years ago today, my friend Joe Wood, Jr. went birding on Mt Rainier in Washington state. He never came home. He was 34 years old.

By Eisa Nefertati Ulen
Trees crash in forests all the time, no one is there to hear, but they still make sounds. Protests happen all over the world, no one records the clashes with police on cell phones, but they still make sounds. They make cries. Yelps. They roar.

By TaRessa Stovall
Decades of research reveal that—no surprise—the stress of living in a racist society causes African Americans to age faster, experience greater health problems and die sooner than their white counterparts.