By Doug Miller
Banks are rolling late fees, back taxes and other costs into the principal, leaving homeowners who were looking for lighter monthly payments with even heavier burdens.

By C. Nicole Mason
Given that African-Americans have some of the worse health outcomes compared to other groups and know first-hand the deficiencies in the current system, we cannot afford to be left out of this important debate.

This week marks the third anniversary of the day Scott Fappiano walked out of a Brooklyn, NY, courthouse a free man for the first time in 21 years. Based on an eyewitness’ misidentification, Fappiano was convicted of a 1985 rape he didn’t commit. He served 21 years in New York prisons before DNA testing ruled him out as the perpetrator.

By TaRessa Stovall
The I’m Biracial … Not Black Damn It! trailer, part of a four-part series on biracial identity today, concentrates on black/white mixed persons, first-generation sons and daughters of black/white couples, expressing their frustration at being labeled “black” rather than feeling recognized, accepted and affirmed for all that they are.

By Chinyere Osuala
There’s an exclusivity that Park Slope, Brooklyn boasts, that makes it different, makes it stand out. No, it’s not the strollers, or the young married couples, or the yuppie-ness, it is the amount of writers, famous writers at that, who call this affluent Brooklyn neighborhood home, including Jonathan Safran Foer, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Pete Hamill.