By Lee A. Daniels
Writing with an easy command of a mountain of material that encompasses six decades of enormous changes in America, Sullivan shows how critical the NAACP, now celebrating its centennial, was to the Civil Rights Movement’s ultimate legal and legislative victories that made the United States a democracy in fact not just in rhetoric.

By Matt Kelley
An exhaustive report published this week in the New Yorker shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004, was innocent.

By Steven Pitts
We commonly speak of this crisis by detailing the high level of joblessness in our communities and decrying the inadequacies of official government statistics. However, I would say that the black community faces a broader problem than is normally discussed. We face a two-dimensional job crisis: the crisis of unemployment and the crisis of low-wage jobs.

By C. Nicole Mason
Recent reports on the recession continue to highlight the disproportionate impact of the downturn on men in comparison to women with regard to job loss and unemployment. However, black and Latino women know that when it comes to unemployment, finding a decent job that pays well has as much to do with race, as it has to do with gender.

By Kevin Eason
Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and Illustrator from NJ. His brand of satire covers news events in politics, entertainment, sports and much more.

By TaRessa Stovall
Due to an innovative diversity effort that emphasizes where students come from rather than the color of their skin, most Berkeley, California, elementary schools are so well-integrated they may serve as a model for other schools around the nation.

By The Editors
The effort of the Obama administration to restore the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division as an agent of the nation’s civil rights laws has apparently shifted into high gear.

By Leslie Wilson
In considering Jackson’s impact on my life, I realized that he is one of the most influential people of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenal performer, but equally a philanthropist, civil rights activist, and generational role model.

August 31 – Five years ago on this day, Clarence Harrison walked out of a Georgia prison a free man for the first time in more than 17 years. Harrison is one of seven men exonerated by DNA testing in Georgia, all seven cases involved eyewitness misidentifications