By Lee A. Daniels
The Arizona politicos who produced that state’s SB1070 law – the racial profiling bill – as their answer to the country’s confused immigration procedures now want to deny U.S. citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants born in the state.

By Doug Miller
Are credit card penalties meant to serve as insurance against late payments, or are they just meant to serve bigger portions to money-hungry financial services companies

By Desiree Cooper
There’s going to be another uprising in Detroit this summer, but this one will be a quiet riot. From June 22 – 26, tens of thousands of activists will converge upon Detroit. And this time, it will not to be to vent anger, but to exude positivity

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) has moved to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Shelby County, Alabama, which seeks to invalidate the federal preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act known as Section 5. LDF seeks to intervene on behalf of African-American residents of Shelby County whose voting rights are directly impacted by this challenge.

Kenneth Wyniemko was convicted of the brutal rape of a Clifton, Michigan woman based on a composite sketch which even the victim said was only 60% accurate. The victim, who repeatedly said she only had a few glimpses of her attacker, described the perpetrator as 6′ to 6’2″ tall, weighing around 200-225 pounds, and 20 to 25 years old. Police informed Wyniemko, who was in police custody on an unrelated misdemeanor charge, that he resembled the sketch despite the fact that he was 5’11″, weighed 198 pounds and was 43 years old.

By Lee A. Daniels
Black and Latino Americans are disproportionately bearing the burden of joblessness, with, relatively speaking, more of their working-age members out of work at every demographic level, from high school dropouts to college graduates.

By Stacey Patton
When I finished the full story, I came to the surprising conclusion that this latest interaction between a white teacher and black child’s hair just might not be a racist incident after all.

By Dale Ho
“Prison-based gerrymandering” is a practice whereby many states and local governments count incarcerated persons as residents of the areas where they are housed when election district lines are drawn. This practice distorts our democratic process by artificially inflating the population count-and thus, the political influence-of the districts where prisons and jails are located.

By George E. Curry
True to expectations, Artur Davis’ quest to become the first black governor of Alabama made history.

But, contrary to expectations, Davis’ stunning defeat provides a sharp – yes, historic – example not only of the cost of political arrogance, but also the underscoring for all candidates, and the national Democratic Party establishment, the sophistication and power of the black electorate.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
Dominque Freeman is one of the lucky ones. She is just completing her freshman year at Cal State Northridge, and she’s doing so with the help of a full academic scholarship. Even more importantly, she now has an identity.

Just a year ago, Freeman didn’t exist.

Unlike most U.S. citizens, she had no birth certificate, no social security number, and she’d just aged out of a foster care system that had determined that her case was closed.