By Desiree Cooper
It’s interesting that while the black Civil Rights Movement looked to Gandhi as a model of social change, Dalits look to African-American militant movements.

By Stacey Patton
Now, as the country braces for the possibility of a double-dip recession, additional spells of unemployment, and yet another wave of home foreclosures, a recent report by the New York Times found that the bulk of those dumping their mortgages are rich people.

They call it “strategic defaults.”

Steven Toney was wrongfully convicted of a 1982 rape in Missouri after the victim identified him in both photo and in-person lineups.

After his 1983 conviction, Toney filed multiple appeals arguing ineffective assistance of counsel because his trial lawyer had repeatedly refused his requests for DNA testing. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with him in 1996, and later that year biological evidence was tested through the help of Centurion Ministries. The results proved Toney’s innocence and he was exonerated 14 years ago this week after spending over 13 years in prison.

By The Editors
Six New Orleans police officers were indicted on federal charges for having participated in a police shooting at the city’s Danziger Bridge days after Hurricane Katrina struck which left two unarmed civilians dead and four wounded.

By Tarice L.S. Gray
While at a swim meet two weeks ago in Canada, World Record Holder and 2008 US Olympic Swimmer Cullen Jones got some heartbreaking news: Another child of color had drowned in his United States.

By Lee A. Daniels
The so-called digital divide in possession and use of cell phones, laptops and other such devices – which once prompted anguished predictions that black Americans would be left behind on the information superhighway – is fast narrowing.

By George E. Curry
On Tuesday, President Obama issued a report outlining the federal government’s first national HIV/AIDS strategy plan.  But AIDS activists worry that the alarming infection rates among African Americans will not be reduced without additional federal spending, better federal coordination and a willingness of people to avoid risky sexual behavior.

By William L. Taylor
I have had the good fortune to be a participant, not just a spectator, in the enormous social transformations of American life that occurred during the last half of the twentieth century. I see the changes in my everyday life and in the status of people of color, women, and people with disabilities.

By Johanna Steinberg
Thousands of law-abiding New Yorkers are unfairly and unlawfully subjected to stops-and-frisks because New York City Police Department officers routinely make unfounded assumptions of criminality based on race or ethnicity

By Tarice L.S. Gray
The lack of opportunity makes the internet all the more enticing as a content producing platform. An artist can initiate their own opportunity and control their own image.