By Maynard Eaton
Lonnie King was 23 years old when he and 4,000 other Atlanta University Center students ignited what became widely known as the Atlanta Student Movement, a series of non-violent lunch counter sit-ins and protests that resulted in the disintegration of legal apartheid in Atlanta.

By Lee A. Daniels
Lessons provides the important benefit of understanding, in full measure, the spirit that drove thousands of black Americans from the most ordinary of circumstances to forcefully but nonviolently confront white southerners’ threats and use of physical and economic reprisals

By Doug Miller
A rural New York school district has been fined $1.25 million by a federal court for failing to quickly put a stop to continual racial harassment directed against one of its high school students.

By Jackie Jones
The National Humanities Medal honors individuals or groups whose work has expanded the country’s understanding and engagement with the humanities or helped to preserve and expand access to resources in the humanities.

By Ralph Richardson
What is the baddest TV show of all time? What had the greatest influence of any TV show in history? What show had the hippest host with the smoothest voice?

By Janet Singleton
In defiance of his former teacher’s another-one-bites-the-dust mandate, Bradley went on to earn a PhD in English from Harvard.

By Lee A. Daniels
He was one of that intrepid band of white and black photographers whose professionalism and sympathy for the cause of justice brought America’s “Second Civil War” to the attention of the whole world.

By John Payton
Last night the Senate passed S. 1789, The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, concerning the, racially discriminatory disparity in the treatment of the crack and powder forms of cocaine. Although the Senate passed legislation concerning the crack/powder sentencing disparity, it refused to completely eliminate that unjustified disparity.

By John Payton
April 1, 2010 is Census Day! This count of the entire population occurs once every ten years, and is critical to the African American community. The distribution of federal funds to state, county and municipal governments and the distribution of political power at every level of government depend on an accurate count.

By C. Nicole Mason
If the average single black woman went to the bank and withdrew her wealth, she would only withdraw $100.00. And nearly half of single black women have zero or negative wealth—meaning if they inserted their cards into an ATM machine, it would more than likely be rejected.