By The Editors
The United States Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has issued a decision ordering a jury trial to determine whether the Ford Motor Company illegally fired an African-American auto-worker because she was pursuing a claim of racial discrimination against the auto giant.

Seven years ago, on August 21, Marvin Anderson was pardoned by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, finally clearing his name two decades after he was convicted of a rape he didn’t commit. He became a suspect in part because he had a white girlfriend and the perpetrator of the rape, an African-American man, told the victim he had a white girlfriend.

Alexis Herman, U.S. Labor Secretary, is instrumental in ending a 15-day United Parcel Services (UPS) strike.

James Meredith, the first black person admitted to the University of Mississippi, graduates on this day becoming the school’s first black graduate.

Archibald H. Grimke, diplomat, editor, and President of the NAACP’s Washington, D.C. chapter for 10 years, is born.

Peter Salem, a soldier who fought in the American Revolution at the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Battle of Breed’s Hill, dies in Framingham, MA.

By The Editors
A federal district judge Monday upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its undergraduate admissions process, declaring that university officials had followed the diversity guidelines set by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003.

By Stacey Patton
As a student of American history, I have pored over the most enduring historical images, particularly those that document black America’s tough times – plantation life, segregation, lynching, riots, and the struggles of the Civil Rights Movement.  Now, for the first time, I’m moving beyond the musty archives, textbooks, scholarly articles, and media statistics to develop a visual understanding of the economic woes facing black Americans during this current recession

By Olympia Duhart
At the age of 48, Alan J. Crotzer has spent more than half of his life behind bars: 24 years, six months, 13 days and four hours, to be precise.

And he was innocent of every single charge leveled against him.

By The Editors
Margaret Bush Wilson, the former Chair of the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, died August 11 in St. Louis. Missouri. She was 90 years old.